Cowboys and Caudillos

El profesor Antonio Fernández analiza el proceso revolucionario ruso desde sus prolegómenos -revolución de 1905- hasta la muerte de su principal protagonista, Lenin, en 1924 Lenin, Trostski, Stalin... prestan su voz para acercarnos al que ha sido llamado el mayor acontecimiento del siglo XX: la transformación de una autocracia coronada en una república federal de signo socialista.

La Guerra de la Independencia provoca un inaudito trauma colectivo e individual. En 1808, obliga a escoger precipitadamente entre la colaboración con los invasores y la resistencia. El dilema es especialmente acuciante para la élite ilustrada. Por su lado, los militares, los paisanos incorporados a la guerrilla, los eclesiásticos, los notables locales, los letrados, las mujeres..., en sus respectivas áreas y con sus actuaciones heroicas o mediocres, revelan sus mentalidades y sus credos. A partir de 1810, en la minúscula península gaditana, otros personajes acceden a la notoriedad por...

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In recent years, no History of Spain has been published in a single volume that serves as a reading for the general public and, at the same time, as a manual for students. With the desire to seek the truth, this work appears in which the authors reflect on all the events in which Spain has starred.