Year: 1976
Type: article
Abstract: ECENTLY made available by the Carranza family, this collection of approximately twenty thousand letters, reports, and memoranda provides the researcher with valuable data on many aspects of revolutionary Mexico for the years 1913 to 1920. While most of the other leading figures of the Mexican Revolution have recently received systematic, reasonably objective analysis, writers of the most diverse ideological currents generally dismiss Carranza as a mild reformer or an outright reactionary. But now that the large collection of documents at the Venustiano Carranza Archive is available, it may be possible to view the socio-economic aspects of carrancismo in a broader perspective. Located in sumptuous working conditions at the Centro de Estudios de Historia de Mexico, Condumex, S.A., in Mexico City's northern industrial zone, the Manuscritos de Don Venustiano Carranza are divided into 142 carpets (folders) arranged in chronological order. About ninety percent of the correspondence consists of messages addressed to Carranza, but a few carpetas are devoted exclusively to his outgoing correspondence. Although there are only five carpetas for the year 1913, eighteen comprise 1914, and the collection is at its strongest for vital 1915 (forty) and 1916 (forty-three), leveling off in 1917 (twelve), 1918 (nine), and 1919 (fourteen), with only one for 1920. No guide or index currently exists for the Carranza Archive but two brief descriptions are available.' Although the collection contains little on the First Chiefs impact on the shaping of the 1917 Constitution or the murky details sur-
Author: Douglas W. Richmond
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2314975792