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Joshua Rubenstein

    1. leden 1949

    Joshua Rubenstein was associated with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and served Amnesty International USA for nearly four decades. His extensive experience informs his writings, which delve into complex sociopolitical landscapes. Rubenstein's work is characterized by its rigorous research and insightful analysis, offering readers a deeper understanding of critical historical and contemporary issues.

    Joshua Rubenstein
    Les derniers jours de Staline
    Tangled Loyalties
    Leon Trotsky
    Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
    Stalinovy poslední dny
    • Stalinovy poslední dny

      • 336 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení
      3,7(57)Ohodnotit

      S odstupem sedmdesáti let lze bez nadsázky konstatovat, že Stalinova smrt a události s ní spojené patří k zásadním milníkům v dějinách 20. století. Strhující kniha Joshuy Rubensteina nás zavede do reality druhé poloviny roku 1952, do posledních měsíců diktátorské vlády sovětského vůdce Josifa Vissarionoviče Stalina. Ocitneme se v době vzrůstajícího napětí mezi Východem a Západem a vystupňovaných represí uvnitř SSSR. Politické procesy a antisemitské kampaně jsou v tomto období nedílnou součástí Stalinovy vražedné politiky. Nikdo netuší, že po dlouhých desetiletích stalinského teroru se schyluje k obratu. Stalinův náhlý kolaps a následná smrt v březnu 1953 byly nejen dramatické a záhadné jako celý jeho život, ale staly se také impulsem ke společenským a politickým změnám. Rubenstein ve své knize popisuje poslední měsíce Stalinova života, odkrývá dosud neznámé okolnosti jeho kolapsu a sleduje vývoj sovětských a mezinárodních událostí po jeho smrti. V novém světle ukazuje politické soupeření Beriji, Malenkova, Chruščova a dalších soudruhů, kteří si byli velmi dobře vědomi toho, co pro ně Stalinův konec znamená.

      Stalinovy poslední dny
    • Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life

      • 240 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení
      3,0(7)Ohodnotit

      Offers new insights into the life of the Russian revolutionary, exploring the battle of personalities between Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin and examining examples of both brilliant and flawed thinking which lead to his political oblivion.

      Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
    • Leon Trotsky

      A Revolutionary's Life

      • 240 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení

      <b>From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who “dreamed of justice and then wreaked havoc,” by a leading expert on human rights and the former Soviet Union</b> Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the 1920s. And he was an assimilated, indifferent Jew who was among the first to foresee that Hitler’s triumph would mean disaster for his fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an alliance with Hitler if Soviet overtures to the Western democracies failed. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky’s own political oblivion. As Joshua Rubenstein writes in his preface, “Leon Trotsky haunts our historical memory. A preeminent revolutionary figure and a masterful writer, Trotsky led an upheaval that helped to define the contours of twentieth-century politics.” In this lucid and judicious evocation of Trotsky’s life, Joshua Rubenstein gives us an interpretation for the twenty-first century.

      Leon Trotsky
    • Tangled Loyalties

      The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg

      • 464 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení

      The life of Ilya Ehrenburg, one of the most renowned Soviet intellectuals of his generation, abounded in contradictions and controversy. As a teenager, he both joined and left the Bolshevik party, only to make himself useful to Stalin decades later as an emissary to European intellectuals.

      Tangled Loyalties