Leonard Bertram Schapiro (1908–1983)

Il problema maggiore che la storiografia occidentale deve affrontare nel ricostruire la vita del partito comunista sovietico è costituito dalla difficoltà di interpretare i documenti originali. Per la prima volta, quindi, grazie a Leonard Schapiro, abbiamo uno studio basato su lunghe, appassionate ricerche condotte con rigore scientifico, delle complesse vicende che trasformarono il movimento originale nello strumento rivoluzionario degli eventi culminanti nel 1917.Gli ulteriori sviluppi, da Lenin al governo di Krusciov, con l'analisi di tutto il periodo dell'imperante stalinismo formano il centro dell'opera.… (más)

2335 Turgenev: His Life and Times, by Leonard Schapiro (read 28 Oct 1990) The subject was born at Orel, Russia, on 28 Oct 1818 and died in France on 3 Sept 1883 at 2 P.M. This is a 1978 book written by a British professor at the London School of Economics. I thought this biography was well enough done, though, since it took me a week to read it, you can tell I was not unfailingly absorbed by it. I may read more by Turgenev, but I am sure I do not get as much out of his work as I should and it is not really clear to me why he interests me as much as he does. Maybe it is just that he is more readable than Dostoyevsky. Turgenev never married, and lived with Pauline Viandot and her husband a lot. His life was not a happy one but it was interesting.… (más)