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Author Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.

Title The Soviet mind : Russian culture under communism / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; foreword by Strobe Talbott ; glossary by Helen Rappaport
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description xl, 242 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Foreword / Strobe Talbott -- Preface / 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 -- Glossary of Names / Helen Rappaport
Summary "Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St. Petersburg in 1917, emigrating to the West in 1921. He first returned to Russia in 1945, when he met the writers Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak. These formative encounters helped shape his later work, especially his defense of political freedom and his studies of pre-Soviet Russian thinkers."
"Never before collected, Berlin's writings about the USSR include his accounts of his famous meetings with Russian writers shortly after the Second World War; his celebrated 1945 Foreign Office memorandum on the state of the arts under Stalin; his account of Stalin's manipulative 'artificial dialectic'; portraits of Osip Mandel'shtam and Boris Pasternak; his survey of Soviet Russian culture written after a visit in 1956; a postscript stimulated by the events of 1989; and more. This collection includes essays that have never been published before, as well as works that are not widely known because they were published under pseudonyms to protect relatives living in Russia."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997 -- Travel -- Soviet Union.
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997, Sir -- Travel -- Soviet Union.
Arts -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union.
SUBJECT USSR -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125824
Author Hardy, Henry.
Brookings Institution.
LC no. 2003023297
ISBN 0815709048 alkaline paper