Concurrent with his re-burial, three major Guevara biographies were published in 1997. Noting the sustained interest in Che, Bernstein suggested that "the end of the cold war and the failure of the third-world revolution" allowed for the "scrutiny of Guevara, [as] a symbol of both the idealism and the moral blindness of the decade of protest" to take place in a context "free of ideological partisanship and rancor."
In 1997, three major biographies about Che Guevara were published concurrently with his re-burial. Bernstein argued that the end of the Cold War and the failure of the third-world revolution created a context free from ideological conflict where Guevara could be examined as a symbol of both the idealism and moral shortcomings of the protest era.