The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

‘A Great Benefactor’ [Isaac Wolfson], Rehovot, Summer 1968, 18–21

Comment on Richard Pipes, ‘The Origins of Bolshevism: The Intellectual Evolution of Young Lenin’, in Richard Pipes (ed.), Revolutionary Russia (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968: Harvard University Press), 52–9

‘The “ Naïveté ” of Verdi’, Hudson Review 21 (1968), 138–47

• repr. from Atti del I congresso internazionale di studi verdiani, 1966 (Parma, 1969: Istituto di Studi Verdiani), 27–35

Reprinted in:

• About The House 3 no. 1 (March 1969), 8–13
• New Republic, 6 October 1979, 30–4
• Ernani (opera programme) ([Cardiff, 1979]: Welsh National Opera) (abridged)
• William Weaver and Martin Chusid (eds), The Verdi Companion (London, 1980: Gollancz)
• Opera 31 (1980), 128–35
• Against the Current

Translated into French, German, Japanese

‘The Role of the Intelligentsia’, Listener 79 (1968), 563–5

• repr. in Derwent May (ed.), Good Talk 2: An Anthology from BBC Radio (London, 1969: Gollancz)
• The Power of Ideas (2nd ed., 2013)

Contribution to ‘Books of the Year: A Personal Choice’, Observer, 22 December 1968, 17

IB's contributions to a conference at the LSE, 19–21 May 1967, held under the title ‘To Define Populism’

• A published summary of the proceedings is in Government and Opposition 3 no. 2 (1968), 137–79, where IB's contributions are at 140, 173–8: see Bib.111(b)(ii)
• A complete transcript of the proceedings of the conference, including more material by IB, is in the library of the LSE under the title ‘London School of Economics Conference on Populism, May 20–21, 1967: Verbatim report’, shelfmark HN 17 C74

(with Martin A. Miller) Herzen’s Circle, New York Review of Books, 20 June 1968 (see also 108 above)

Foreword to G. L. Seidler, The Emergence of the Eastern World: Seven Essays on Political Ideas (Oxford etc., 1968: Pergamon), ix

Anderson, Perry, ‘Components of the National Culture’, New Left Review 50 (July–August 1968), 3–57, esp. 25–8

• repr. in Alexander Cockburn and Robin Blackburn (eds), Student Power (Harmondsworth, 1969: Penguin), 214–84, esp. 239–42 and 281

Hopkinson, Diana, The Incense-Tree: An Autobiography (London, 1968), esp. 84

Milne, Alan J. M., Freedom and Rights (London, 1968: Allen and Unwin)

Sykes, Christopher, Troubled Loyalty: A Biography of Adam von Trott zu Solz (London, 1968: Collins), esp. pp. 100, 110–11 (and see index s.v. IB)

Introduction to Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts

German

(Suhrkamp, 1976) (Insel, 1987)

Russian

‘Aleksandr Gertsen i ego memuary’, trans. V Sapov with introduction on IB and his work, Voprosy literatury (March–April 2000), 111–42

Spanish

‘The “Naïveté” of Verdi’

French

‘La naïveté de Verdi’, trans. André Berelowitch, in Attila (Paris, 2001–2: Opera National de Paris), 62–7 [opera programme]

German

‘Verdis Naivität’, in Salzburg Festival Programme (1998), 56–61

Japanese

‘Verdi no“sobokusa” ’, trans. Haruo Tanaka, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 1 (1983)

‘The Role of the Intelligentsia’

Thai

• trans. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal and Chayanggoon Thamma-un, Intelligentsia no. 2 [‘So What Thailand?’] (2019), 24–35

Verdi and Schiller

• Talk
• Recording date: 23/10/68? (unidentified date on transcript)
• First transmission: 6.40 pm 11/1/69 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 35 minutes 45 seconds
• Repeat(s): 7.30 pm 21/2/69 BBC Third Programme
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BLSA Tape 1314R

Turgenev

• Cambridge Union Lecture, ?Dec. 1969
• BBC transcript; not broadcast
• Producer: Jack Amos
• Transcript: Berlin Papers

Four Essays on Liberty (London and New York, 1969: Oxford University Press)

• revised reprints of Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century, Historical Inevitability, Two Concepts of Liberty, John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life, with a new introduction
• trans. Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian

See also the 2002 publication Liberty, edited by Henry Hardy, which incorporates Four Essays on Liberty, while adding to it a fifth essay, 'From Hope and Fear Set Free', which Berlin wished had been published in the 1969 edition. Liberty draws together key texts on this defining subject in Berlin's oeuvre, and in practical terms it supersedes Four Essays on Liberty.

Foreword to Michael Yudkin (ed.), General Education: A Symposium on the Teaching of Non-Specialists (Harmondsworth, 1969: Allen Lane/Penguin), 9–20

• repr. as ‘General Education’ in Oxford Review of Education 1 (1975), 287–92
• repr. in The Power of Ideas (2nd ed., 2013)
• trans. Japanese

‘The Hazards of Social Revolution’, in Aaron W. Warner, Dean Morse and Thomas E. Cooney (eds), The Environment of Change (New York and London, 1969: Columbia University Press), 1–27

• includes a short discussion between IB and I. I. Rabi on the rationality of science
• described as a ‘Summary of Remarks’, this text, under the title ‘The Lessons of History’, was in fact heavily corrected by IB before publication
• repr. with revisions as ‘The Lessons of History’ in Joshua L. Cherniss and Steven B. Smith (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin (New York, 2018: Cambridge University Press)