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    The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism
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    The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism

    By Henry Hardy, Isaiah Berlin and Strobe Talbott

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    Berlin’s great powers of observation combine with his great knowledge and literary gifts to provide us with a fascinating series of insights.”
    Geoffrey Riklin

    George Kennan, the architect of U.S. 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 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-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 Russian writers in the aftermath of the war; a celebrated memorandum written 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 introduction describes their history. In his revised foreword, Brookings’ Strobe Talbott, a longtime expert on Russia and the Soviet Union, relates the essays to Berlin's other work.

    The essays and other pieces in The Soviet Mindincluding a new essay, Marxist versus Non-Marxist Ideas in Soviet Policy”represent Berlin at his most brilliant and are invaluable for policymakers, students, and anyone interested in Russian politics and thoughtpast, present, and future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrookings Institution Press
    Release dateAug 23, 2016
    ISBN9780815728887
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    The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism
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    Henry Hardy

    Henry Hardy is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Isaiah Berlin's principal editor, and one of his literary trustees. He began editing Berlin in the mid-1970s (while a graduate student at Wolfson). Previously an editor at OUP, Hardy has been working full time on Berlin since 1990, and has now edited or co-edited 18 of his books, as well as a four-volume edition of his letters – the last volume of which (Affirming: Letters 1975-1997, co-edited with Mark Pottle) was published in September 2015 by Chatto.

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