The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

The Father of Russian Marxism: G. V. Plekhanov (1856–1918)

• Talk (centenary of Plekhanov’s birth)
• First transmission: 9.10 pm 11/12/56 BBC Third Programme
• Duration : 15 minutes
• Producer: Anna Kallin
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BLSA Tape T10780W
• Publication: ‘The Father of Russian Marxism’, Listener 56 (1956), 1063–4, 1077 (see Bib.65)

The Age of Enlightenment: The Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (ed. with introduction and commentary) (Boston, 1956: Houghton Mifflin; New York, 1956: New American Library; Oxford, 1979: Oxford University Press)

• introduction excerpted in Jack Lively (ed.), The Enlightenment (London, 1966: Longmans)
• repr. as ‘The Philosophers of the Enlightenment’ in The Power of Ideas
• trans. Chinese

2nd ed., ed. Henry Hardy, published exclusively online (Oxford, 2017: The Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust)

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Introduction to Alexander Herzen, From the Other Shore and The Russian People and Socialism (London, 1956: Weidenfeld and Nicolson [see Bib.55(b)] Oxford, 1979: Oxford University Press), vii–xxiii/xxv

• repr. with postscript as ‘“ A Revolutionary Without Fanaticism” ’, New York Review of Books, 19 April 1979, 16–21
• (with further revisions) in The Power of Ideas
• trans. Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Russian

‘Equality’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 56 (1955–6), 301–26

• repr. as ‘Equality as an Ideal’ in Frederick A. Olafson (ed.), Justice and Social Policy: A Collection of Essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1961: Prentice-Hall), the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Political Science, no. 68812, and Concepts and Categories

‘The Father of Russian Marxism’ (Plekhanov), Listener 56 (1956), 1063–4, 1077

• repr. in New Leader (USA), 4 February 1957, 14–17 (as ‘Father of Russian Socialism’), and The Power of Ideas
• trans. French, Russian

‘The Anti-Marxist.  Portrait of a Nineteenth-Century Prophet’, review of George Woodcock, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Sunday Times, 21 October 1956, 8

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The Age of Enlightenment: The Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

Chinese

Simplified script (Nanjing, 2005, 2010: Yilin Press)

Introduction to Alexander Herzen, From the Other Shore

Finnish

‘Alexander Herzen: vallankumouksellinen vailla fanatismia’, trans.Tuulikki Mäkinen, in Kanava 1 (1980), 25–33

Italian

Aleksandr Herzen: dall’altra sponda, trans. Pia Pera (Milan,1993: Adelphi)

Japanese

Trans. Naoshi Hagihara, Herzen: kako to seisaku I, trans. Yukihiko Kaneko (Tokyo, 1964: Chikuma-Shobo), 449-455

Russian

In Ab imperio, vol 3–4 (2000), 27–41

‘The Father of Russian Marxism’

French

Russian

Political Judgement

• Talk
• First transmission: 9.05 pm 19/6/57 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 30 minutes
• Repeat(s): 6.30 pm 16/8/57
• Series: Thinking about Politics (No 6 of 7)
• Producer: T. S. Gregory
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BLSA Tape T10780W

A Fire at Sea

• Introduction to and translation of a short story by Turgenev
• First transmission: 10.00 pm 23/7/57 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 30 minutes
• Repeat(s): 10.00 pm 26/12/57 BBC Third Programme, 9.50 pm 16/1/59 BBC Third Programme, 19/10/59 BBC Home Service (‘Today “Today’s Voices”’); 10.05 pm 6/6/89 BBC Radio 3 in An Evening with Sir Isaiah Berlin
• Producer: Anna Kallin
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BLSA Tape T10780W
• Publication: ‘An Episode in the Life of Ivan Turgenev’, London Magazine 4 No 7 (July 1957), 14–24; reissued in First Love [and] A Fire at Sea (London, 1982: Hogarth Press; New York, 1983: Viking) (see Bib.66)

From Communism to Zionism: The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess

• Lucien Wolf Memorial Lecture, Friends House
• Recording date: 1957
• First transmission: not broadcast
• Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes
• Recording: BLSA Tape T10898W
• Publication: The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess (Cambridge, 1959: Heffer) (see Bib.75)

‘An Episode in the Life of Ivan Turgenev’, London Magazine 4 no. 7 (July 1957), 14–24 (includes translation of Turgenev’s ‘A Fire at Sea’)

• reissued with Bib.39 as First Love [and] A Fire at Sea (London, 1982: Hogarth Press; New York, 1983: Viking)

‘The Silence in Russian Culture’, Foreign Affairs 36 (1957), 1–24

• repr. in Hamilton Fish Armstrong (ed.), Fifty Years of Foreign Affairs (New York, 1973: Praeger for the Council on Foreign Relations; London, 1973: Pall Mall)
• repr. in James F. Hoge, Jr, and Fareed Zakaria (eds), The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World, Essays from 75 Years of ‘Foreign Affairs’ (New York, 1997: Basic Books); repr. with Bib.68 as ‘Soviet Russian Culture’ in The Soviet Mind
• trans. Russian

Under the pseudonym ‘L.’, ‘The Soviet Intelligentsia’, Foreign Affairs 36 (1957), 122–30

• repr. with Bib.67 as ‘Soviet Russian Culture’ in The Soviet Mind
• trans. German, Russian

(with Edgar Lustgarten and Lords Hailsham and Russell) ‘London Forum’ (discussion of ‘The Role of Great Men in History’), London Calling, 31 January 1957, 3–4, 10

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(with Miriam Rothschild) ‘Mr James de Rothschild: “Grand Seigneur” ’ (supplementary obituary), The Times, 13 May 1957, 15

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(with others) ‘Budapest Sentences’ (letter), Manchester Guardian, 25 June 1957, 6

(with others) ‘Murder in Budapest’ (letter), Daily Telegraph, 25 June 1957, 8

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Lasky, Melvin, ‘The “Sovietologists”: When is a Change not a Change?’ in Encounter 24 (September 1957), pp. 64–8 (esp. 67)