The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’, in Personal Impressions

• Shortened version, ‘Conversations with Russian Poets’ (given as a Bowra Lecture), The Times Literary Supplement, 31 October 1980, 1233–6
• and (with additions), as ‘Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak’, New York Review of Books, 20 November 1980, 23–35 – this version repr. in The Proper Study of Mankind, The Soviet Mind and Robert B. Silvers (ed.), The Company They Kept, vol. 2, Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (New York, 2011: New York Review Books)
• excerpted as ‘Anna Akhmatova: A Memoir’ in The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, trans. Judith Hemschemeyer, ed. Roberta Reeder (Somerville, Massachusetts, 1990: Zephyr Press), vol. 2 – and in the one-volume edition (Somerville, Massachusetts, 1992: Zephyr Press; 2nd. ed., Boston, Massachusetts, 1994: Zephyr Press; Edinburgh, 1994: Canongate Press)
• trans. Dutch, French (in part), German, Hebrew, Polish, Spanish (in part), Russian

NB: the opening paragraph of the lecture as delivered was omitted from the published text

‘Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956’ Short Version

German

‘ Stalin’s Nachtasyl: Gespräche mit Boris Pasternak und Anna Achmatowa ’, in Trans Atlantik (6 June 1981), 56–68

Japanese

‘Russiano shijn tachi tono kaiwa’, trans. Hidekazu Kawai, Selected Works of Berlin, vol. 2 (Tokyo, 1983: Iwanami Shoten)

Polish

‘Spotkania z rosyjskimi pisarzami (1945–1956)’, trans. Jacek Brzezinski, Zeszyty Literackie 6 (1984), 59–102 [Full Version]

Dutch

‘Gesprekken met Anna Achmatova en Boris Pasternak’, trans. Ochid Hogen Esch, Vrij Nederland, 7 February 1981, 3–33

French

(in part)

Russian

Whole essay:

• (1) ‘Vstrechi s russkimi pisatelyami 1945 i 1956’, trans. D. Segal, E. Tolstaya-Segal and O. Ronen, with the help of the author, in L. Fleishman, O. Ronen and D. Segal (eds), Slavica Hierosolymitana: Slavic Studies of the Hebrew University, vol. 5–6 (Jerusalem, 1981: Magnes Press, Hebrew University), 593–641
• repr. in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)
• excerpts repr. in Requiem, one of 5 vols of Akhmatova’s works (Moscow, 1989), 197–224
• (2) ‘Vstrechi s russkimi pisatelyami v 1945 i 1956 godakh’, trans. N. I. Tolstoy, Zvezda, 1990 no. 2 (February), 129–57

Part of essay (on the first meeting with Pasternak):

• trans. ?, Dos’e [special supplement to Literaturnaya gazeta] 2 (1992), 13

Spanish

(in part) ‘Recordando a Pasternak’, in Revista de Occidente (20 January 1983), 5–24

Polanowska-Sygulska, Beata, ‘Krytyka koncepcji wolnosci pozytywnej w ujeciu Isaiaha Berlina’ [‘Isaiah Berlin’s critique of the positive concept of freedom’], Studia nauk politycznych 3 (1984), 49–65

Granovskaya, Ol'ga Leonidovna, and B. I. Pruzhinin, ‘ “Publichnaya ratsional'nost' ” YU. Khabermasa v kontekste idei tsennostnogo plyuralizma’ [‘The “Public Rationality” of J. Habermas in the Context of the Idea of Value Pluralism’], Gumanitarnie issledovaniya v Vostochnoy Sibiri i na Dal'nem Vostoke [Humanities Research in Eastern Siberia and the Far East] 2015 no. 3, 82–7