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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.

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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 r...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997 (Author)
Other Authors: Hardy, Henry (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Berlin, Isaiah, > 1909-1997 > Travel > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Intellectual life.
Arts > Political aspects > Soviet Union.
Berlin, Isaiah, > 1909-1997.
Arts > Political aspects.
Intellectual life.
Travel.
Soviet Union.
Table of 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.

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