Oblatos-Colonias

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.

El aporte teórico de este libro es mostrar a través de la práctica analítica que el estudio de la conciencia de clase requiere tomar como objeto histórico la cultura. Hay en la obra un postulado casi implícito: es importante pero no suficiente situar una clase con relación a la estructura económica. Por supuesto, se requiere conocer el condicionamiento material, el tipo de relaciones sociales de producción de la cual una clase determinada es agente; y por ello en este libro es central la descripción de las funciones económicas de la oligarquía. Pero entre la situación económica...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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