Robert Service goza de reconocido prestigio como experto en la historia de Rusia. En esta demoledora biograf\u00eda de I\u00f3sef Stalin pone a nuestro alcance por primera vez un estudio completo sobre la vida, a lo largo de m \u00e1s de veinte a\u00f1os, de uno de los personajes m\u00e1s controvertidos de la historia. Service ha investigado en los archivos de Mosc\u00fa, recientemente abiertos al p\u00fablico y a los que han tenido acceso muy pocos expertos occidentales, y ha recopilado testimonios personales y documentos privados por toda Rusia, Georgia y Abjasia. Ello le ha permitido desafiar la imagen com\u00fanmente aceptada del l\u00edder sovi\u00e9tico como un simple bur\u00f3crata asesino.Cuando, en 1928, obtuvo el poder supremo Stalin ten\u00eda cincuenta a\u00f1os. Service describe con un detalle sin precedentes los factores vitales que configuraron al \u00abHombre de Acero\u00bb: su temprana infancia en Georgia, hijo de un borracho violento y de una mujer devota; su incorporaci\u00f3n al seminario religioso; su etapa juvenil revolucionaria como denodado marxista, cuyo celo lo llevar\u00eda a afianzar su posici\u00f3n y su influencia en el partido bolchevique, mucho antes de la Revoluci\u00f3n rusa.Asistimos al papel que jug\u00f3 en la guerra civil de 1918-1920 y al modo en que sus acciones a lo largo del conflicto prefiguraron al Stalin del Gran Terror. Pero Service tambi\u00e9n nos muestra a un hombre de ideas: un voraz lector y poeta consumado cuyo rigor anal\u00edtico compet\u00eda con el de Lenin y otros art\u00edfices de la Rusia sovi\u00e9tica.Los datos sobre su vida siempre han sido opacos, orquestados por su implacable esfuerzo por silenciar a los testigos y su sistem\u00e1tica distorsi\u00f3n, ocultamiento y destrucci\u00f3n de documentos. Robert Service ha dedicado treinta a\u00f1os al tema, y su reciente y pormenorizada investigaci\u00f3n le permiten reconstruir al hombre que se oculta tras el mito, en esta obra que es hasta la fecha la m\u00e1s autorizada sobre la larga carrera de Stalin, sobre su impacto y sobre su extraordinaria personalidad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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