📗 Libro en inglés THE SOVIET MIND: RUSSIAN CULTURE UNDER COMMUNISM

BROOKINGS INSTITUTION - 9780815709046

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Sinopsis de THE SOVIET MIND: RUSSIAN CULTURE UNDER COMMUNISM

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; the celebrated 1945 Foreign Office memorandum on the state of the arts under Stalin; his account of Stalin''s manipulative ''artificial dialectic''; portraits of Osip Mandel4shtam 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. The contents of this book were discussed at a seminar in Oxford in 2003, held under the auspices of the Brookings Institution. Berlin''s editor, Henry Hardy, had prepared the essays for collective publication and here recounts their history. In his foreword, Brookings president Strobe Talbott, an expert on the Soviet Union, relates the essays to Berlin''s other work. The Soviet Mind will assume its rightful place among Berlin''s works and will prove invaluable for policymakers, students, and those interested in Russianpolitics, past, present and future.


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Editorial: Brookings Institution

ISBN: 9780815709046

Idioma: Inglés

Número de páginas: 240
Tiempo de lectura:
4h 55m

Encuadernación: Tapa dura

Fecha de lanzamiento: 14/05/2004

Año de edición: 2004

Plaza de edición: Washington D.c.

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Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin (Riga, 1909 – Oxford, 1997) fue uno de los principales pensadores del siglo xx. A los seis años se trasladó con su familia a Petrogrado (actual San Petersburgo), donde vivió la revolución bolchevique. En 1921 emigró a Inglaterra. Estudió en la Universidad de Oxford, donde fue fellow del All Souls College y del New College, así como profesor de Teoría Social y Política, y fundó el Wolfson College. Diplomático en Washington y Moscú en 1941 y 1942, también presidió la Academia Británica de 1974 a 1978. Sus logros en el campo de la historia de las ideas le hicieron acreedor de los premios Erasmus, Lippincott, Agnelli y Jerusalén. Entre sus numerosos libros destacan Karl Marx, Pensadores rusos, Conceptos y categorías, Contra la corriente, Impresiones personales, El sentido de la realidad, El estudio adecuado de la humanidad, Las raíces del romanticismo, El poder de las ideas, Sobre la libertad y El erizo y el zorro.
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