Getulio Vargas' coming back to «Big Policy»: Presidential electoral campaign in 1950 and the program of the new Brazilian government

The main features of Brazil's social-economic and political development after World War 2; democratic process; creating political parties and their programs; the most important politicians and first of all Getulio Vargas; presidential electoral campaign in 1950 and the program of the new Brazilian government are being studied in this article. The intensive searching to find a national model of social-economic and political development for this agrarian-industrial state which possessed the complicated social and economic structures was going on at that time. The attempts to solve national economic tasks with the help of both national private and foreign capital without violating state's sovereignty were realized at that epoque.

National pattern of economic and political development, fazendeiro (landlord), Authoritarian state, democracy, Political Party program, government program, political leaders, Presidential electoral campaign, trabalhists (members of the Brazilian Labour Party)