Resumen

VANEGAS USECHE, Isidro. Apostles of the People. The character of the revolutionary leadership in Colombia, 1924-1930. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2013, n.25, pp.45-77. ISSN 0121-8417.

This paper analyzes the characteristics and nature of leadership within the Socialist Revolutionary Party, important political experience of the second half of the 1920s. It shows the factors that enabled these revolutionary leadership to take hold within, the social origins of these activists, the kind of prominence that exercised within the party and related social organizations. It is, in short, an analysis of how the current political leaders that claimed to represent the people, of which emerges a diverse group of activists determined to advance the social revolution, imbued with a provision to martyrdom and an inclination violence by a passenger who gave the world popular approach, rather inclined to reject all forms of political violence.

Palabras clave : Revolutionary Socialist Party; revolutionary leadership; representation; peoples; social revolution; violence.

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