"Esparcidos en el inmenso territorio de la república". Los primeros pasos del Partido Socialista en las provincias (1894-1902)

The article explores the role played by the provinces of the so-called interior of the country in the first stage of Argentina's socialism. The first part traces the place Socialist Party leaders assigned to the interior in their theoretical and political considerations. This is achieved by assessing the interpretations and characterizations published in La Vanguardia from its creation in 1894 until Juan B. Justo's development of the "socialist program for the countryside" in the early twentieth century. In the second part, the article examines the first organizational steps taken by the Socialist Party outside Buenos Aires in the same period so as to explore the concrete forms the development of the first centers and groups took in the various provinces.