Anita Leocádia Prestes

Anita Leocádia Benario Prestes ( born November 27, 1936 in Berlin) is a Brazilian historian. She is the daughter of Communists Olga Benario - Prestes Luís Carlos Prestes and.

Born Women's Prison Barnimstraße, Prestes was separated at the end of lactation at the age of 14 months, from her mother and her paternal grandmother, Leocádia Prestes passed.

In Brazil, Anita Prestes ended in 1964 her chemistry studies at the Faculty of Chemistry at the former University of Brazil, now the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro ( UFRJ ), with a degree in chemical engineering. But she was not allowed to work in this profession after the right-wing military coup for political reasons. 1966, during the military dictatorship, she obtained the degree of Masters in Organic Chemistry.

In the early 1970s went into exile Prestes in the Soviet Union. In August 1972, she was indicted in Brazil for political activities. The Judicial Council of the Army ( Conselho Permanente de Justiça para o Exército ) condemned Prestes in absentia to a prison sentence of four years and six months.

In December 1975 Anita Leocádia Prestes received a doctorate in political economy from the Institute of Social Sciences in Moscow. Four years later, in September 1979, put the judiciary Prestes ' imprisonment under the first amnesty in Brazil.

1989 Anita Prestes received a PhD in history at the Universidade Federal Fluminense ( UFF - University of the State of Rio de Janeiro) with a thesis on the Coluna Prestes. She is now Professor of the History of Brazil at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro ( UFRJ ), the appointment was made in 1992.