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Isaac and Isaiah - The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic (Paperback)
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Isaac and Isaiah - The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic (Paperback)
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Two high-voltage scholars engage in a bitter conflict in this
irresistible tale of principle and politics in the Cold War years
Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and
Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the
mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped
historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of the ideological
clash between two of the most influential scholars of Cold War
politics, David Caute uncovers a hidden story of passionate
beliefs, unresolved antagonism, and the high cost of reprisal to
both victim and perpetrator. Though Deutscher (1907-1967) and
Berlin (1909-1997) had much in common-each arrived in England in
flight from totalitarian violence, quickly mastered English, and
found entry into the Anglo-American intellectual world of the
1950s-Berlin became one of the presiding voices of Anglo-American
liberalism, while Deutscher remained faithful to his Leninist
heritage, resolutely defending Soviet conduct despite his rejection
of Stalin's tyranny. Caute combines vivid biographical detail with
an acute analysis of the issues that divided these two icons of
Cold War politics, and brings to light for the first time the full
severity of Berlin's action against Deutscher.
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