The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

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’

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)

‘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

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

• repr. in Against the Current
• trans. Estonian

(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
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‘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

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‘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
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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

‘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))

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)

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