The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

‘Historical Inevitability’

Danish

‘Historisk nodvendighed’, in Den ideale straeben og andre essays, trans. Anders Smith (Copenhagen, 2005: Gyldendal)

Italian

Japanese

‘Rekishi no hituzensei’, trans. Keizo Ikimatsu, Rekishino Hituzensei (Tokyo, 1966: Misuzu Shobo) ‘Rekishi no Hituzensei’, trans. Keizo Ikimatsu, in Jiyūron [translation of Four Essays on Liberty] by K. Ogawa, K. Koike, K. Fukuda and K. Ikimatsu (Tokyo, 1971: Misuzu Shobo)

Norwegian

Den historiske nodvendighet, trans. Erik Gunnes (Oslo, 1971: Cappelens)

Spanish

‘La inevitabilidad histórica’, trans. Julio Bayón, in Libertad ynecesidad en la historia (Madrid, 1974: Revista de Occidente)

Swedish

Är historien ödesbestämd?, trans. Anders Byttner (Stockholm, 1956: Stockholms Bokindustri)

A Marvellous Decade 1838–1848

• Northcliffe Lectures for 1954 (1 and 4 re-recorded for BBC)

• The Young Intellectuals
• Belinsky: The Impact of Western Ideas
• Belinsky: The Original Contribution of the Russian Intelligentsia
• Alexander Herzen: His Opinions and Character

• Recording dates: ?, ?, ?, 16/12/54
• First transmission: 9.00 pm 26/1, 9.00 pm 2/2, 8.50 pm 9/2, 9.05 pm 16/2/55 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: each 60 minutes
• Repeat(s): 6.00 pm 28/1, 6.20 pm 7/2, 6.20 pm 15/2, 6.00 pm 22/2/55 BBC Third Programme
• Producer: Anna Kallin
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives (except 2)
• Recording: No 4 onlyBBC Sound Archives LP23384–6; BLSA Tape T10145R
• Publication: ‘A Marvellous Decade’ (see Bib.57)

• ‘1838–48: The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia’, Encounter 4 No 6 (June 1955), 27–39
• ‘1838–48: German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow’, Encounter 5 No 11 (November 1955), 21–9
• ‘Belinsky: Moralist and Prophet’, Encounter 5 No 12 (December 1955), 22–43
• ‘Herzen and the Grand Inquisitors’, Encounter 6 No 5 (May 1956), 20–34

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Talk (10th anniversary of FDR’s death)
• First transmission: 8.25 pm 12/4/55 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 25 minutes
• Repeat(s): 10.30 pm 20/4/55 BBC Third Programme
• Producer: Anna Kallin
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Publication: ‘Roosevelt through European Eyes’, Atlantic Monthly 196 No 1 (July 1955), 67–71; as ‘President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’, Political Quarterly 26 (1955), 336–44 (see Bib.60)

‘Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty’, in Ernest J. Simmons (ed.), Continuity and Change in Russian and Soviet Thought (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1955: Harvard University Press), 473–99

• repr. in Russian Thinkers
• trans. Russian

‘A Marvellous Decade: Literature and Social Criticism in Russia, 1838–48’, Northcliffe Lectures for 1954 [1955]

• repr. as ‘A Remarkable Decade’ in Russian Thinkers
• trans. Italian, Russian

The lectures:

• I    ‘1838–48: The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia’, Encounter 4 no. 6 (June 1955), 27–39; trans. Russian
• II   ‘1838–48: German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow’, Encounter 5 no. 11 (November 1955), 21–9
• III  ‘Belinsky: Moralist and Prophet’, Encounter 5 No 12 (December 1955), 22–43
• IV  ‘Herzen and the Grand Inquisitors’, Encounter 6 No 5 (May 1956), 20–34; repr. as ‘Alexander Herzen’ in Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol and Melvin J. Lasky (eds), Encounters: An Anthology from the First Ten Years of Encounter Magazine (New York, 1965: Simon and Schuster), and as introduction to Alexander Herzen, Childhood, Youth and Exile, trans. J. D. Duff (Oxford, 1980: Oxford University Press); excerpted in John Gross (ed.), The New Oxford Book of English Prose (Oxford, 1998: Oxford University Press); trans. French, Japanese, Russian

‘Montesquieu’, Proceedings of the British Academy 41 (1955), 267–96

• repr. in Against the Current
• trans. Estonian

‘Philosophy’, talk given to the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club, 20 May 1955

• as recorded by Andor Gomme in the minutes

(with Anthony Quinton, Stuart Hampshire and Iris Murdoch) ‘Philosophy and Beliefs’, Twentieth Century 157 (1955), 495–521

‘Roosevelt through European Eyes’, Atlantic Monthly 196 no. 1 (July1955), 67–71

• as ‘President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’, Political Quarterly 26 (1955), 336–44 (repr. under this title in Personal Impressions and The Proper Study of Mankind)
• repr. as ‘The Natural’ in Robert Vare with Daniel B. Smith (ed.), The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly: 150 Years of Writers and Thinkers Who Shaped Our History (New York etc., 2007: Doubleday), 229–37

‘The Furious Vissarion’, review of Herbert E. Bowman, Vissarion Belinski, New Statesman and Nation 50 (July–December 1955), 447–8

• repr. in New Leader (U. S. A.), 16 January 1956, 21–2
• view document (below) for PDF

‘Words of Wisdom’, review of The Table Talk of a Modern Sage: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, OM, as recorded by Lucien Price, Jewish Chronicle, 18 February 1955, 18

• View document (below) for PDF

‘Marx as Historian’ (letter), New Statesman and Nation 50 (July–December 1955), 366

• repr. at Enlightening 499–500

(with Rose Macaulay, Raymond Mortimer and Harold Nicolson), ‘Last Asquithian’ (letter), New Statesman and Nation 49 (January–June 1955), 8 January, 45

• written in response to an article of that title on Violet Bonham Carter, ibid. 48 (July–December 1954), 11 December, 781
• view document (below) for PDF

Schneiderman, Harry, and Carmin, Itzhak J. (eds), Who’s Who in World Jewry: A Biographical Dictionary of Outstanding Jews (New York, 1955: Who’s Who in World Jewry/Monde), ‘Berlin, Isaiah’

Geyl, Peter, Debates with Historians (Gröningen/The Hague/London, 1955: Wolters/Nijhoff/Batsford)

• devotes a chapter to IB

Wollheim, Richard, ‘Determinism’ (letter, with a reply by Isaac Deutscher), The Observer, 30 January 1955, 8c–d

‘Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty’

German

‘Herzen und Bakunin über die Freiheit des Einzelnen’, trans. Harry Maor, Russische Denker (Frankfurt, 1981: Europäische)

Japanese

‘Herzen to Bakunin: kojin no jiyū womegutte’, trans. Yoshio Imai, in Japanese translation of Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 1 (1983)

Russian

‘Gertsen i Bakunin o svobode lichnosti’, trans. I. Kazakova, in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie)

‘A Marvellous Decade’

Entire:

Hebrew

In Molad, 13–15 (1955–7): I: 13 (1955), 315–25 II: ibid., 489–96 III: 14 (1956), 35–47, 183–91 IV: 15 (1957), 8–19

Japanese

‘Tyumoku subeki jyuunen kan’, trans. of I and II by Hidekazu Kawai, trans. of III and IV by Hiroshi Takenaka, in Japanese translation of Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 3 (1984), Individual essays: I: ‘ The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia’

Russian

‘Rozhdenie russkoi intelligentsii’, trans. B. Dubin with introduction about IB, in Voprosy literatury no. 6 (1993), 188–212; repr. in Istoriya svobody: Rossiya (Moscow, 2001: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie) IV: ‘ Alexander Herzen’

French

‘Alexandre Herzen: l’humanisme et la terreur’, trans. Catherine Chraibi, two parts: I, Preuves no. 85 (March 1958), 12-21; II, ibid. no. 86 (April 1958), 10–16

Russian

‘Aleksandr Gertsen’, trans. I. Kazakova, in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie no. 49 (March 2001), 99–118

‘Montesquieu’

Estonian

Japanese

‘Montesquieu’, Trans. Hiroyuki Minabe, in Japanese translation of Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 1 (1983)

Polish

‘Monteskiusz’, trans. Zofia Dorosz, in Literatura na świecie no. 6 (1986), 277–317

Historical Inevitability: The Role of Great Men in History

• Unscripted discussion with Lords Hailsham and Russell
• Recording date: 22/5/56
• First transmission: 23/10/56 General Overseas Service
• Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds
• Series: London Forum
• Presenter: Edgar Lustgarten
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Publication: ‘London Forum’, London Calling, 31 January 1957, 3–4, 10n (see Bib.68(a))