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The guest from the future : Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin
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The guest from the future : Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin

by György Dalos, Andrea Dunai, Antony Wood

This account explores the 1945 meeting between Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin in Leningrad, detailing its literary impact and the resulting KGB persecution. It utilises secret files to analyse the political consequences of their encounter during the Cold War.

Accession 21334 ISBN 0374167273 Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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