The Soviet Mind

Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Roots of Romanticism, and Against the Current (all Princeton). Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin, and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.

出版者:Brookings Institution Press

作者:Isaiah Berlin

页数:242

出版时间:2004-2-6

价格:USD 28.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780815709046

图书标签:苏联政治思想史IsaiahBerlin历史俄罗斯文化研究非虚构

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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 Mandel'shtam 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 Russian politics, past, present and future.

读后感

【作业向读书报告渣文】 谦逊和自负 “伯林式的谦逊标题”是书中经常出现的字眼。这位儒雅的英国自由主义思想家不想让自己的文章标题宏大得张牙舞爪，而文章内容也是娓娓道来，平和而又睿智。但这些文章辑成一书后，却冠上了一个足够宏大且自负的标题：“苏联的心灵——共...  

08年时买了三卷本《古拉格群岛》，还未及读完一半，便听到索尔仁尼琴溘然长逝的消息，顿时心有戚戚。及至今年中文版《红轮》出版，是却既没有心力也没有时间更没有兴趣去读了。 一切历史都是八卦史，对于像我这种有窥阴癖的人来说，《古拉格群岛》带来的“钻到里面”揭露的感...  

十月革命过后不久的一个夜晚，诗人曼德尔施塔姆在一家咖啡馆喝咖啡，契卡军官勃柳姆金正醉醺醺地把即将被处决者的名字抄到空白表格上，曼德尔施塔姆突然迎身冲向勃柳姆金，一把抓过名单将其撕碎，随即冲出门外，后来是托洛茨基的姐姐救了他。以赛亚•伯林1945年造访苏联...  

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用户评价

三星半。文章之间内容略重复，多数谈不上犀利，但文笔不错。Soviet Russian Culture这篇写得有些鸡血，从学术角度不太喜欢。写Akhmatova和Pasternak的两篇很好，非常浪漫忧伤，太动人。

我我我承认我的英文不好。。。坐等中文版。。。

despotic regime breeds inner émigré.

纯粹为了和中文版校对。

Berlin的一个长句真的能写一页纸啊！又觉得自己离高大上的学术世界远了一步呢。喜欢中段的故事，Berlin本人从点滴出发对苏联的分析现在看来显得不尽不全了