''Cultura Política'' was a political and cultural magazine based in

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, Brazil.Cultura política e ditadura: um debate teórico e historiográfico
udesc.br It was one of the cultural apparatuses developed by the Estado Novo to diffuse the official ideology to the whole

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. It was in circulation between 1941 and 1945.

History and profile

''Cultura Política'' was established by Almir de Andrade in 1941. The first issue appeared in March 1941. The headquarters of the magazine was in

. The publisher was the department of press and propaganda. The magazine produced fifty issues during its lifetime and was edited by Almir de Andrade. Some of its major contributors included

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, Azevedo Amaral, Lourival Fontes,

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and Nelson Werneck Sodre. It ended publication in October 1945.

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