Product Description: Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia-the landmark investigation into Russian history and thought Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture...read more

Product Description: A study of a humanist strand of Russian thought. It finds, in the writings of Herzen, Chekhov and Bakhtin, an emphasis on the role of chance and contingency in nature and history. It argues that this evidence establishes the importance of these humanists in the development of European thought...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A prominent scholar here writes about two kinds of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian intellectuals: those with a passion for ideology (often the most extreme form); and those who, inspired by libertarian humanism, developed sophisticated critiques of ideology. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)