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1 online resource (317 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
A Brookings Classic
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Brookings Classic.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Foreword to the Brookings Classic Edition; Editor's Introduction to the First Edition; Editor's Introduction to the Brookings Classic Edition; 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. |
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The Survival of the Russian Intelligentsia: 1990Marxist Versus Non-Marxist Ideas in Soviet Policy: 1952; Communism: Summary of Mr Isaiah Berlin's Speech; Glossary of Names: Helen Rappaport; Further Reading; Index; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
#X93;Berlin's great powers of observation combine with his great knowledge and literary gifts to provide us with a fascinating series of insights." #x97;Geoffrey Riklin George Kennan, the architect of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union, called Isaiah Berlin #x93;the patron saint among the commentators of the Russian scene." In The Soviet Mind, Berlin proves himself worthy of that accolade. Although the essays in this book were originally written to explore tensions between Soviet communism and Russian culture, the thinking about the Russian mind that emerges is as relevant today under Putin's post-commun. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
History.
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.
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Talbott, Strobe.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hardy, Henry. Soviet Mind : Russian Culture under Communism. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2016 9780815728870 |
| ISBN |
9780815728887 (electronic book) |
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0815728883 (electronic book) |
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