Sheila Fitzpatrick
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In 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries came to power in the war-torn Russian Empire in a way that defied all predictions, including their own. Scarcely a lifespan later, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed as accidentally as it arose. The decades between witnessed drama on an epic scale-the chaos and hope of revolution, famines and purges, hard-won victory in history's most destructive war, and worldwide geopolitical conflict, all entwined around the...
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Este es un libro acerca de la vida en la Rusia urbana en el apogeo del estalinismo. Trata de viviendas comunitarias atestadas, de esposas abandonadas y esposos que no pagaban los alimentos de sus hijos, de falta de comida y ropa, de colas interminables que consumían la jornada de las amas de casa. Trata de la queja popular ante estas condiciones y de cómo reaccionó el gobierno. De los laberínticos trámites burocráticos que convertían la vida...
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"Co-Winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, Australian Government Department of Communications and the Arts" "2015 Silver Winner in History, ForeWord Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards" "Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016" Sheila Fitzpatrick is professor of history at the University of Sydney...
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La historia de la Unión Soviética (1917-1991) se transformó de manera vertiginosa en las últimas décadas. Los historiadores, hasta hace poco limitados a usar la escasa información oficial, cuentan ahora con el valioso auxilio de los archivos, admirablemente conservados, que día a día se abren para la investigación. A la vez, el derrumbe del régimen soviético invita a mirar su pasado con una visión menos orientada a buscar en él la prefiguración...
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The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture.
Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick takes the story from 1917, through Stalin's "revolution from above", to the great purges of the 1930s. She tells a gripping story of a Marxist...