Oriente Frente a Occidente

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un libro de lectura casi obligatoria para quienes crean que la historia es algo más que un amontonamiento de datos y que el rigor científico es compatible con la voluntad de desmitificación y denuncia. Ángel viñas, El País.

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La vida de Stalin antes de la Revolución fue siempre un enigma, que él mismo ocultaba con silencios y falsedades. Lo mismo podría decirse de los antecedentes de la propia Revolución, convertida en una leyenda épica tras el triunfo de los bolcheviques. Gracias a una impresionante aportación de nuevos documentos, Simon Sebag Montefiore, el autor de aquella obra maestra que es “La corte del zar rojo”, nos descubre un joven Stalin hasta ahora desconocido, que cobra una sorprendente dimensión humana en estas páginas, y nos da una visión por dentro de la forma en que se preparó y...