Hernán Camarero

Notable Works

• Tiempos rojos. El impacto de la Revolución rusa en la Argentina (Red Times: The Impact of the Russian Revolution in Argentina, Sudamericana, 2017)
• A la conquista de la clase obrera. Los comunistas y el mundo del trabajo en la Argentina, 1920-1935 (Conquering the Working Class: Communists and the World of Labor in Argentina, 1920–1935, Siglo XXI, 2007)

• Lenin y el leninismo en América Latina (Lenin and Leninism in Latin America, Ariadna, 2016)
• El trotskismo en la Argentina. Estudios para una historia política, social y cultural (Trotskyism in Argentina: Studies for a Political, Social, and Cultural History, Prometeo, 2024)
• Comunismo y clase obrera hasta los orígenes del peronismo (Communism and the Working Class up to the Origins of Peronism, Eudem, 2020)
• El movimiento obrero y las izquierdas en América Latina: experiencias de lucha, inserción y organización (The Labor Movement and the Left in Latin America: Experiences of Struggle, Insertion, and Organization, The University of North Carolina Press, 2018)
• Política y cultura en los sectores populares y de las izquierdas latinoamericanas en el siglo XX (Politics and Culture among Popular Sectors and the Left in Latin America in the Twentieth Century, Ariadna, 2016)
• El Partido Socialista en Argentina. Sociedad, política e ideas a través de un siglo (The Socialist Party in Argentina: Society, Politics, and Ideas across a Century, Prometeo, 2005)
• De la Revolución Libertadora al menemismo. Historia social y política argentina (From the Libertadora Revolution to Menemism: Social and Political History of Argentina, Imago Mundi, 2000).

Biography

Hernán Camarero was born in Buenos Aires in 1966. He trained as a Professor of History at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, where he later earned his PhD in History. He also completed a Master’s degree in History at the Torcuato Di Tella University. He currently serves as a Principal Researcher at CONICET, based at the Institute of Argentine and American History “Dr. Emilio Ravignani.” At the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, he holds the position of Chair Professor of Argentine History III.

Over the past decade and a half, he has stood out as the founder and director of the academic journal Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda (Archives of the History of the Labor Movement and the Left) and of the Center for Historical Studies of Workers and the Left (CEHTI), a space dedicated to research, training, and outreach, which also houses an extensive library and a valuable documentary archive.

Research Interests

His research focuses on the social and political history of twentieth-century Argentina, with particular emphasis on the trajectory of left-wing movements and their connections with the labor movement, in a comparative and transnational perspective. He has authored more than 100 publications in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, France, Spain, the United States, Russia, Germany, Costa Rica, and Israel, including books, book chapters, and articles in specialized journals.