This article discusses the new intellectual leadership emerged in the Brazilian Communist Party from the experience of exile in the 1970s. Many of the Brazilian intellectuals communists in Western Europe sustain a dialogue with the guidelines of Eurocommunism, with "national-popular question" and the resistance against the military regime implanted in 1964. The "elaborations of exile" of the PCB, as this process became known, were important to reinforce the strategy of front of democratic resistance to dictatorship, with implications in the political and cultural spheres. Paradoxically, the front strategy did not survive the context of "abertura", and the consequent return of the exiles to Brazil.
Brazilian Communist Party: culture and politics; Intellectuals and resistance; Military Regime: communist resistance
