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The Soviet mind : Russian culture under communism / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; foreword by Strobe Talbott ; glossary by Helen Rappaport.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts--Political aspects--Soviet Union.
- Arts.
- Soviet Union--Intellectual life.
- Soviet Union.
- Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997--Travel--Soviet Union.
- Berlin, Isaiah.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Berlin (former professor of social and political theory, Oxford U., UK), well known for his political philosophy and its distinction between positive and negative freedoms, was less recognized as a Russian-Jewish migr . This collection of 10 essays gathers his writings on the USSR and includes his reflections on the work of Boris Pasternak and Osip
- Contents:
- The arts in Russia under Stalin
- A visit to Leningrad
- A great Russian writer
- Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak
- Boris Pasternak
- Why the Soviet Union chooses to insulate itself
- The artificial dialectic : Generalissimo Stalin and the art of government
- Four weeks in the Soviet Union
- Soviet Russian culture
- The survival of the Russian intelligentsia.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283938846
- 1283938847
- 9780815796336
- 0815796331
- OCLC:
- 476016396
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