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UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA ESCUELA DE TEOLOGÍA, FILOSOFÍA Y HUMANIDADES DOCTORADO CANÓNICO EN TEOLOGÍA MEDELLÍN 2013

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...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...