With a revised foreword by Brookings President Strobe Talbott and a
new introduction by Berlin's editor, Henry Hardy. George Kennan,
the architect of US 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 fully worthy of
that accolade. Although the essays in this book were originally
written to explore the tensions between Soviet communism and
Russian culture, the thinking about the Russian mind that emerges
is as relevant today under Putin's postcommunist 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 the Russian writers in the aftermath of the war; a
celebrated memorandum he wrote 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 Mind - which includes 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 thought - past, present, and
future.
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