La sociedad vitoriana en el siglo XVIII

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A caballo entre la síntesis y la interpretación, "La Revolución rusa: Historia y memoria" ofrece un enfoque de este acontecimiento histórico que se aparta de lo trillado y del relato de las vidas de los dirigentes victoriosos de Octubre. Aprovechando la avalancha de material procedente de los archivos de la antigua URSS que puso a disposición de los historiadores y estudiosos el efímero paréntesis que transcurrió entre Gorbachov y el ascenso al poder de Vladímir Putin (la llamada "década memorable"), José M. Faraldo se centra en transmitir una instantánea del episodio y de los...

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Adolf Hitler quemaba libros... y leía El Quijote, Robinson Crusoe y Shakespeare. La destructiva ideología del dictador alemán se formó a partir de su biblioteca privada. El autor de esta obra, Timothy Ryback, nos descubre que una interpretación particular del poema de Ibsen, Peer Gynt, moldeó la ambición despiadada del líder nazi, y que admiraba El judío internacional, el tratado antisemita de Henry Ford. Ryback muestra cómo las lecturas de Hitler sobre religión y ciencias ocultas alimentaron su creencia en la providencia divina, o el proceso por el cual las palabras de Nietzsche...