以赛亚·伯林(1909-1997)活了89岁,其中有两次总计4个月(1945年9月至1946年1月)又4个星期(1956年)在斯大林的苏联度过。这是如此重要的4个月和4个星期,对此,伯林一生念念不忘。这短暂的时间里,他不仅拜访了心仪已久的诗人帕斯捷尔纳克和阿赫玛托娃(此后成为他一生最温暖的记忆),也亲眼见到了伟大的俄国文化是怎样在苏联的专制体制下毁灭的。4个月的访问结束,以赛亚的传记作者后来这样写道:“他(伯林)在离开俄国的时候,心中满怀着对苏联专制的憎恶之情,这种憎恶几乎在他后来为捍卫西方自由主义和政治自由而写的每一篇文章的字里行间都 Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) lived 89 years, of which two spent a total of four months (September 1945 to January 1946) and another four weeks (1956) spent the Soviet Union in Stalin. It was so important for four months and four weeks, to which Berlin kept his memories. In this short period of time, he not only visited the long-awaited poets Pasternak and Akhmatova (henceforth the warmest memory of his life), but also witnessed how the great Russian culture in the Soviet Union Destruction of the autocratic system. After a four-month visit ended, Isaiah’s biographer later wrote: ”When he left Russia, his (Berlin) heart was full of abhorrence of Soviet despotism, which he almost later Every article in every article written to defend Western liberalism and political freedom