Manuel Vázquez Montalbán ante la cuestión soviética: Moscú de la Revolución (1990) y otros ecos de una militancia nostálgica

The aim of this article is to connect the essay Moscú de la Revolución (1990) with the political ideology and the emotional framework that guided Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's literary project; namely, an antifrancoist commitment, inspired by Marxism and, albeit with its shadows, by the Russian revolutionary project. In addition to examining the literary content and emotional value of this essay, the article proposes a rereading of other texts that share its sensitivity, such as "Teoría de la desaparición del dinosaurio" (Theory of the disappearance of the dinosaur and the forewords to Calle del proletario rojo by Nina and Jean Kéhayan, La seule issue, El verdadero Lenin by Dmitri Volkogonov, and Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service. The combined analysis of these texts reveals a distinct subjective approach, masked by the ideological veil of Montalbán’s prose.