The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History (London, 1953: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; New York, 1953: Simon and Schuster; New York, 1957: New American Library; New York, 1986: Simon and Schuster, with an introduction by Michael Walzer)

  • Originally published in a shorter form as ‘Lev Tolstoy’s Historical Scepticism’, Oxford Slavonic Papers 2 (1951), 17–54
  • excerpt in John Curtis (ed.), Weidenfeld and Nicolson: Fifty Years of Publishing (London, 1999: Weidenfeld and Nicolson), 28–32
  • repr. in Russian Thinkers and The Proper Study of Mankind (latter text reprinted separately) (London, 1992: Phoenix; Chicago, 1993: Ivan R. Dee) and excerpted as Tolstoy and History (London, 1996: Phoenix)
  • trans. Finnish, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian (in part), Polish, Russian, Spanish

2nd. edition, ed. Henry Hardy, foreword by Michael Ignatieff (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press)

  • adds an appendix containing a parody by John Bowle (‘The Owl and the Pussy-Cat’)
  • a review by A. J. P. Taylor
  • (extracts from) letters (Bib.276)
  • extracts from interviews with Michael Ignatieff, and other material

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