Tragic Week (Spanish: Semana Trágica), also known as Bloody Week,[1][2] was a series of riots and massacres that took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from January 7 to 14, 1919. An uprising led by anarchists and communists was eventually crushed by the Argentine Federal Police, the military, and the Argentine Patriotic League. Estimates of the death toll vary but are usually in the hundreds, mostly of workers at the hands of the government forces.
^The International Working-class Movement: Problems of History and Theory. Vol. 3. Progress Publishers. 1980. p. 405.
^Crook, Wilfrid Harris (1931). The General Strike: A Study of Labor's Tragic Weapon in Theory and Practice. University of North Carolina Press. p. 565.
Further reading
Baer, James A. (March 30, 2015). Anarchist Immigrants in Spain and Argentina. University of Illinois Press. ISBN978-0-252-09697-6.
Godio, Julio (1985). La Semana Trágica de enero de 1919 . Buenos Aires, Argentina: Hyspamérica. (in Spanish)
Horowitz, Joel (September 10, 2015). Argentina's Radical Party and Popular Mobilization, 1916–1930. Penn State Press. ISBN978-0-271-07429-0.
Pigna, Felipe (2006). Los mitos de la historia argentina: De la ley Sáenz Peña a los albores del peronismo. Buenos Aires: Editorial Planeta. (in Spanish)
Schiller, Herman (2005). Momentos de luchas populares. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Instituto Movilizador de Fondos Cooperativos. (in Spanish)
Hébert, John Raymond (1972). The Tragic Week of January, 1919, in Buenos Aires: Background, Events, Aftermath (Ph.D.). Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University. OCLC123178801.
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