ISBN:
9780300192094
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 335 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2013
DDC:
320.50922
Keywords:
Berlin, Isaiah
;
Deutscher, Isaac
;
Political science History 20th century
;
Cold War Biography
;
Political scientists Biography
;
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997
;
Deutscher, Isaac, 1907-1967
;
Political scientists
;
Biography
;
Deutscher, Isaac 1907-1967
;
Berlin, Isaiah 1909-1997
;
Politisches Denken
;
Ost-West-Konflikt
Description / Table of Contents:
Berlin: a lifeDeutscher: a life -- The issues -- Marx and Marxism -- What is history? -- A portrait of Stalin -- Images of Lenin -- Trotsky the Prophet -- Berlin, Christopher Hill, and Deutscher -- Two concepts of liberty -- The hedgehog and the fox -- Anna Akhmatova -- Boris Pasternak -- The Cold War and the people's democracies -- Orwell and the renegades -- Post-Stalin Russia: the prophecies -- An anglo-American -- The new Left and Vietnam -- Two Jewish heritages -- Zionism -- The banality of evil: Berlin and Arendt -- The Sussex letters.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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