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Luchadores por la libertad de América Latina (Siglos y hombres)
Moscú. 20 cm. 407 p. il. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Traducido del ruso por Ana Clavijo. Siglos y hombres. Traducción Bortsy za svobodu Latinskoï Ameriki. Políticos. Biografías. América Latina. Historia .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 5010006324
407 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1988
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About the author
Iosif Romualdovich Grigulevich (Иосиф Ромуальдович Григулевич) was one of the most remarkable Soviet illegal operatives (a spy acting without diplomatic cover) during the 1930s and 1940s, when he took a leading role in assassinating leftists who were not loyal to Joseph Stalin. Under a false identity as Teodoro B. Castro, a wealthy Costa Rican expatriate living in Rome, Grigulevich served as the ambassador of the Republic of Costa Rica to both Italy and Yugoslavia (1952 – 1954). His mission to assassinate Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito was aborted due to Stalin's death, after which Grigulevich settled in Moscow, where he worked as an expert on the history of Latin America and on the Roman Catholic Church. He was a member of Soviet Academy of Sciences, served as editor in chief of the magazine, Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost ("Social Sciences Today") and published many books and articles about Latin American subjects.
He was the author of 58 books, some of which were published under the pseudonym Iosif Lavretsky (Лаврецкий). In 1979 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Colleagues were puzzled by the lack of any biographical information about him prior to his forties and by his refusal to be photographed. The details of Grigulevich's role as a Soviet agent were clarified only after the fall of the communist regime, particularly with the release of the so-called "Mitrokhin archive" in the mid-1990s.
He was the author of 58 books, some of which were published under the pseudonym Iosif Lavretsky (Лаврецкий). In 1979 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Colleagues were puzzled by the lack of any biographical information about him prior to his forties and by his refusal to be photographed. The details of Grigulevich's role as a Soviet agent were clarified only after the fall of the communist regime, particularly with the release of the so-called "Mitrokhin archive" in the mid-1990s.
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