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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458156003321

Autore

Berlin Isaiah <1909-1997.>

Titolo

The Soviet mind [[electronic resource] ] : Russian culture under communism / / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; foreword by Strobe Talbott ; glossary by Helen Rappaport

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2004

ISBN

1-283-93884-7

0-8157-9633-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HardyHenry

Disciplina

301.0947

305.55209470904

700/.947/09045

Soggetti

Arts - Political aspects - Soviet Union

Electronic books.

Soviet Union Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword by Strobe Talbott; Preface by Henry Hardy; The Arts in Russia Under Stalin,  December 1945; A Visit to Leningrad, 1945; A Great Russian Writer,  1965; Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak, 1980; Boris Pasternak, 1958; Why the Soviet Union Chooses to Insulate Itself, 1946; The Artificial Dialectic:  Generalissimo Stalin and the Art of Government, 1952; Four Weeks in the Soviet Union, 1956; Soviet Russian Culture, 1957; The Survival of the Russian Intelligentsia, 1990; Glossary of Names; Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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