Biography of Martin Luther: – Whether or not his doctrine is shared, Luther is an apostle or at least a prophet to some, and to others a renegade heretic. Destroyer of countless things, this man of intense and energetic convictions represents, with his conception of man as an individual isolated from God, history and the world, one of the pillars on which the Modern Age is based. Initiator of the
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Writer, social reformer, designer and English artist who through his literary, theoretical and artistic work tried the renewal of the culture recovering the spirit of medieval arts and crafts. As a designer and craftsman, his work would have great influence on book design, the art of printing, the visual arts, and industrial design of the nineteenth century. His social ideology, of utopian sign, was collected in theoretical writings and in
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Biography of Naoya Shiga: – He grew up in the bosom of a well-to-do family that presumed to descend from the military aristocracy of the Tokugawa era (1600-1867). His youth was bitter because of clashes with his father, who did not approve of his decision to devote himself to literature, something that was still frowned upon by well-meaning society, or his idealistic humanism, inspired by the ideas of Uchimura Kanzo,
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Biography of Antonio Trueba: – His works in prose always reflect the rural environment of the Basque Country or Castile, aspect that announces the generation of 98. Son of a family of farmers worked in Madrid like dependent of a hardware store. Later he would be archivist and chronicler of the Senorio de Vizcaya and staunch defender of the fueros of this region. Kind and simple man and self-taught writer,
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American Baptist pastor, civil rights advocate. The long struggle of Black Americans to achieve the fullness of rights has since 1955 seen an acceleration in which the young pastor Martin Luther King was soon to be highlighted. His nonviolent action, inspired by Gandhi’s example, mobilized a growing portion of the Afro-American community to culminate in the summer of 1963 in the historic march on Washington that drew 250,000 demonstrators. There,
Read MoreBiography of Leon Trotski
Russian Revolutionary, who was born in a Jewish family of proprietary farmers and studied law at the University of Odessa. From youth he participated in the clandestine opposition against the autocratic regime of the czars, organizing a Workers’ League of the South of Russia (1897). Biography of Leon Trotski Born:- 7 November 1879, Bereslavka, Ukraine Died:- 21 August 1940, Coyoacán, Mexico Cause of death:- Assassination Political party:- RSDLP; SDPS; Mezhraiontsy; CPSU; Fourth International Spouse:- Natalia Sedova (m. 1903–1940), Aleksandra
Read MoreBiography of Alexander Kerensky
Leading leader of moderate socialism, after the fall of the tsarist monarchy was minister of justice and war of the provisional government led by Prince Lvov. In June of 1917 he was named head of the government, position that held until the triumph of the Bolshevik revolution in November of that year. Biography of Alexander Kerensky Born:- 4 May 1881, Ulyanovsk, Russia Died:- 11 June 1970, New York City, New York, United States Education:- Saint
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Soviet leader that governed ironically the USSR from 1929 (year when it was erected like successor of Lenin after the exile of Trotsky) until his death in 1953. At the price of bloody repression and immense sacrifices imposed on the population. Stalin was able to convert semi feudal Russia into an economic and military power capable of contributing decisively to the Allied victory in World War II (1939-1945). In the
Read MoreBiography of Vladimir Lenin
Biography of Vladimir Lenin:- In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the abyss between Czar Alexander III, defender of Byzantine absolutism of his ancestors, and the cultivated class had been so aggravated that the struggle against Tsarism had become, among the educated Russians , a duty and an honor. The political opposition and the revolutionary movement grew under the impulse of an “intelligentsia” that made acolytes in schools, in
Read MoreBiography of Gamal Abdel Nasser
Biography of Gamal Abdel Nasser: – Political and military Egyptian, president of the Egyptian republic between 1954 and 1970. Son of a postal officer attended primary school in al-Khatatibah, a village in the Nile delta the one that had been destined. He continued his studies in Cairo and participated in frequent anti-British and anti-monarchist demonstrations, which led to his first admission to prison at age 17 accused of conspiracy. After
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