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El autor expone la historia de muchísimas familias, cuyos integrantes durante los años del stalinismo y más allá, perdieron su libertad e incluso su vida en los gulabs. Familias desmembradas bien por alguna opinión (la comida está cara) o por sus orígenes sociales (ser hijos o parientes de un kulak). Testimonios desgarradores sobre el sufrimiento humano y el miedo frente al totalitarismo. El sistema de toma de rehenes para obligar confesiones, el silencio, las ejecuciones, las venganzas, la desmoralización, el falso patriotismo. Frases con las que aprendieron a vivir: hoy te toca a ti, mañana me tocará el turno a mí; cuando menos sepas, mejor va a ser tu vida, no se puede hacer una tortilla sin romper algunos huevos. Reflexiones como: ¿qué sentido tenía discutir con un creyente? Muy muy recomendable.
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This first session of "Cosmopolitan Dialogues", a new format of interviews in English with outstanding international personalities in different fields of culture, has as its guest the renowned British writer and historian Orlando Figes (London, 1959). In dialogue with music critic and translator Luis Gago, the author of essays such as “Revolutionary Russia, 18911–1924", "Natasha's Dance", "The Europeans" or the more recent "The Story of Russia" reviews his bibliography while examining his intellectual biography and reflecting on the progression of his studies and interests, from his beginnings in the 1980s as a researcher of the Russian peasantry in the Moscow archives, through oral history and memorial literature of the Soviet era and on to analyzing the interrelationship between Russian culture and history. "I want to make history a literary craft," says the protagonist during the session, where he also analyzes—from a historical perspective—the current situation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
https://www.march.es/es/madrid/conferencia/orlando-figes
11 November 2022
Fundación Juan March, Madrid
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