Secolul recent încheiat prezintă caracteristici aparte faţă de restul istoriei moderne. Evenimentele s-au desfăşurat cu o viteză fără precedent şi într-un ritm ameţitor, aruncând mai ales spaţiul european în vâltoarea… Read more Ca și cum: ethosul dizidenței laice →
A PEOPLE’S TRAGEDY A History of the Russian Revolution, Penguin, 1996. These days we call so many things a ‘revolution’ — a change in the government’s policies on sport, a technological innovation, or even a new trend in marketing — that it may be hard for the reader of this book to take on board the vast scale of its subject at the start. The Russian Revolution was, at least in terms of its effects, one of the biggest events in the history of the world. Within a generation of… Read more ORLANDO FIGES: O CARTE DESPRE REVOLUŢIA BOLŞEVICĂ →