Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
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Page 136
... Stalin had recently viewed the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible and had taken Eisenstein's portrayal of the Tsar as an allegorical denunciation of his own increasingly paranoid and savage rule . Stalin had apparently ...
... Stalin had recently viewed the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible and had taken Eisenstein's portrayal of the Tsar as an allegorical denunciation of his own increasingly paranoid and savage rule . Stalin had apparently ...
Page 143
... Stalin about the poet Osip Mandelstam , then under suspicion for having recited a savage poem attacking ' the Kremlin Mountaineer ' at a small private gathering in Moscow . Pasternak at first thought the call was a practical joke and ...
... Stalin about the poet Osip Mandelstam , then under suspicion for having recited a savage poem attacking ' the Kremlin Mountaineer ' at a small private gathering in Moscow . Pasternak at first thought the call was a practical joke and ...
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... Stalin's unflagging interest in her , just as proud as she was of the anonymous bouquets left at her front door . People forget the fat cats , she said , but they do not forget those who suffer.54 Stalin died in 1953 , but her ordeal ...
... Stalin's unflagging interest in her , just as proud as she was of the anonymous bouquets left at her front door . People forget the fat cats , she said , but they do not forget those who suffer.54 Stalin died in 1953 , but her ordeal ...
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