Russian Thinkers

The theme that links these essays – written over thirty years – is the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia, which Isaiah Berlin calls “the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.”

One of the most outstanding liberal intellects of this century, the author brings to his portraits of Russian intellectual life – and the widest variety of the most radical minds in its spiritual and political circumstances – that prodigious cast of mind and brilliance of intellect for which he is famous. [Richard David Daube]