Institutional imaginaries of the Mexican revolution: from the armed outbreak to the presidency of Miguel Alemán Valdés (1910-1952)

One of the central concepts that has shaped the history of modern states and societies after the break with the old regime is the concept of 'Revolution'.In fact, the founding event of contemporary Mexico is precisely the Mexican Revolution.While it is true that Mexican historiographical tradition, indebted to Leopold Von Ranke's positivism, has generated multiple accounts and historical reconstructions of this event, it is also true that a task still pending is the reconstruction not of the revolutionary event itself, but of the different forms that the concept of Revolution has taken on when adopted by different political classes once they have risen to federal executive power.In this work, both the theoretical framework of Cornelius Castoriadis' social imaginaries and the contributions of Reinhardt Koselleck's hermeneutic German historiographical tradition provided elements to carry out this task, at least for the first half of the 20th century, through the analysis of official documents such as presidential speeches and the evolution in the drafting of the 3rd and 27th constitutional articles.