04335nam 2200625 450 991082807940332120200520144314.00-8157-2888-3(CKB)3710000000820231(MiAaPQ)EBC4550480(OCoLC)954133768(MdBmJHUP)muse53660(Au-PeEL)EBL4550480(CaPaEBR)ebr11246340(CaONFJC)MIL980236(OCoLC)956620723(PPN)224405500(EXLCZ)99371000000082023120160902h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe soviet mind Russian culture under communism /Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; foreword by Strobe Talbott ; glossary by Helen RappaportBrookings classic edition.Washington, District of Columbia :Brookings Institution Press,2016.©20161 online resource (317 pages)The Brookings classicsIncludes index.0-8157-2887-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Editor's note to the Brookings classic edition -- Preface / by Henry Hardy -- 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 -- Appendix: Marxist versus Non-Marxist Ideas in Soviet Policy; Communism."With a revised foreword by Brookings President Strobe Talbott and a new introduction by Berlin's editor, Henry Hardy. George Kennan, the architect of US policy toward the Soviet Union, called Isaiah Berlin 'the patron saint among the commentators of the Russian scene.' In The Soviet Mind, Berlin proves himself fully worthy of that accolade. Although the essays in this book were originally written to explore the tensions between Soviet communism and Russian culture, the thinking about the Russian mind that emerges is as relevant today under Putin's post-communist Russia as it was when this book first appeared more than a decade ago. This Brookings Classic brings together Berlin's writings about the Soviet Union. Among the highlights are accounts of Berlin's meetings with the Russian writers in the aftermath of the war; a celebrated memorandum he wrote for the British Foreign Office in 1945 about the state of the arts under Stalin; Berlin's account of Stalin's manipulative 'artificial dialectic'; portraits of Pasternak and poet Osip Mandel'shtam; Berlin's survey of Russian culture based on a visit in 1956; and a postscript reflecting on the fall of the Berlin Wall and other events in 1989. Henry Hardy prepared the essays for publication; his introductory discussions describe their history. In his foreword, revised for this new edition, Brookings's Strobe Talbott, a long-time expert on Russia and the Soviet Union, relates the essays to Berlin's other work. The essays and other pieces in The Soviet Mind-which includes a new essay, 'Marxist versus Non-Marxist Ideas in Soviet Policy,' and a summary of a talk on communism-represent Berlin at his most brilliant, and are invaluable for policy-makers, students and anyone interested in Russian politics and thought-past, present and future"--Provided by publisher.ArtsPolitical aspectsSoviet UnionCommunismSocial aspectsSoviet UnionPolitics and cultureSoviet UnionSoviet UnionIntellectual lifeArtsPolitical aspectsCommunismSocial aspectsPolitics and culture700.947/09045POL005000HIS032000POL032000bisacshBerlin Isaiah1909-1997,121069Hard HenryTalbott StrobeRappaport HelenMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828079403321The soviet mind4059696UNINA