Revolução, história e memória – O 25 de Abril e os desafios da História Oral

In overall, the complexity of the revolutionary phenomenon (which also includes the 25th of April 1974 in Portugal) requires a methodological approach that goes beyond the difficulties and limitations of classical historiography. In this vein, Oral History is assuming a growing relevance (also in Portugal), conveying that one becomes much closer to the revolutionary event if to historic memory and its main warrantors (the archives), we also add individual memory. If to the exhaustive recording of facts, names or dates, one adds the voices of those who lived that unique experience (from the main protagonists to secondary, or even passive, actors), one will get a better grasp of environments, ways of thinking, values, rationalities, and sensibilities. This is the great challenge to Oral History, as argued in this article