The Soviet Mind
Download or Read eBook The Soviet Mind PDF written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Isaiah Berlin |
| Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0815709048 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780815709046 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Soviet Mind by : Isaiah Berlin
Book excerpt: Isaiah Berlins response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Never before collected, Berlins writings about the USSR include his accounts of his famous meetings with Russian writers shortly after the Second World War; the celebrated 1945 Foreign Office memorandum on the state of the arts under Stalin; his account of Stalins manipulative artificial dialectic; portraits of Osip Mandelshtam 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.
