The arts in Russia under Stalin -- A visit to Leningrad -- A great Russian writer -- Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak -- Boris Pasternak -- Why the Soviet Union chooses to insulate itself -- The artificial dialectic: Generalissimo Stalin and the art of government -- Four weeks in the Soviet Union -- Soviet Russian culture -- The survival of the Russian intelligentsia. APPENDICES -- Marxist versus non-Marxist ideas in Soviet policy -- Communism.
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Berlin, Isaiah, -- 1909-1997 -- Travel -- Soviet Union.Arts -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union.Soviet Union -- Intellectual life.