Վարդան Մատթէոսեան2026-06-122026-06-122021Մատթէոսեան, Վ., «Ս. Դ. Հնչակեան կուսակցութիւնը Հարաւային Ամերիկայի մէջ (սկզբնական շրջանի ուրուագիծ)», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2021, Պէյրութ, էջ 119-156https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/1419The study of the history of political parties in different communities of the Armenian diaspora has usually been hampered by the scarcity of sources, mainly due to the inaccessibility of local archives and, in the case of South America, the almost total inexistence of newspaper collections. At this stage, the early history of the Social-Democrat Hunchakian Party in the three main Armenian communities of the region (Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay) can only be outlined at most. The first chapter was founded in 1912 or 1913 in Buenos Aires. It was actively involved in community politics and financial assistance to various Armenian causes during the crucial period 1915- 1920. The Armenian wave of immigration to South America after 1922 contributed to the creation of new chapters in Uruguay (Montevideo, 1926), Argentina (Cordoba, 1929), and Brazil (Sao Paulo, 1929, and others). The activity of the Brazilian chapters was deeply affected by repression by the authoritarian regime of Getulio Vargas and his Estado Novo (1937-1945). In the 1920s and 1930s, the Hunchakian Party had to withstand the competition of the Armenian section of the Communist Party, to the left of its ideological arc, to which it lost some of its membership. At the same time it also sought a strategic alliance with the Communist Party on the basis of a common pro-Soviet Armenian stance against the main ideological and political antagonist, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.