The Russian Obsession with History and Historicism

The Origins of Cultural History

• Third of the 3 Gauss Seminars, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• 3. The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians

• Recording date: 22/2/73
• First transmission: not broadcast
• Duration: c.60 minutes each (the last longer)
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: BLSA Tapes F4797-9

The Origins of Cultural History

• Second of the 3 Gauss Seminars, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
• 2. ‘Geisteswissenschaft’ and the Natural Sciences: Vico versus Descartes

• Recording date: 20/2/73
• First transmission: not broadcast
• Duration: c.60 minutes each (the last longer)
• Transcript: made by Henry Hardy
• Recording: BLSA Tapes F4797-9

Missing Isaiah Berlin

‘That’s How It Was’: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin at the End of 1945

• Video of talk given in Boris Pasternak’s dacha, Peredelkino
• Posted: 20 January 2015
• Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 27 seconds
• Speaker: Tatiana Sergeevna Pozdnyakova
• Recording: YouTube
• Publication: see the author’s book on this topic

Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin: Leningrad–Moscow–London

• Item on BBC Russian Service TV
• Posted: 7 February 2015
• Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds (section on AA and IB ends 5:12)
• Speakers: Aleksandr Kan, Seva Novgorodtseva
• Recording: YouTube

Bowen and Betjeman

• Radio play by John Banville; IB played by Nick Dunning
• First transmission: 14/2/2014, BBC Radio4
• Duration: 45 minutes
• Repeat: 4.15 pm, 21/3/2016, BBC Radio 4
• Author: John Banville
• Producer Gemma McMullan

Summary

Sir Isaiah

• Russian TV report (First Latvian Channel) on the 2014 IB Day in Riga
• Posted: 4 June 2014
• Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds
• Reporters: Tatiana Kovalenko, Spartaka Lukashevicha
• Recording: YouTube
• Publication: for the proceedings of the whole event see official website

Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin: The Price of a Conversation

• Russian radio report
• Series: Above the Barriers: American Hour
• First transmission: 2 June 2014
• Duration: (whole programme) 28 minutes 18 seconds; (section on AA and IB) 5 minutes, from 13:22 to 18:22
• Presenter: Aleksandr Genis
• Recording: Podster

Russian TV report on the 2013 IB Day in Riga, 9 October 2013

• Channel: LTV7
• First transmission: 9 October 2013
• Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds
• Reporter: Anatasiya D'yakonova
• Recording: YouTube
• Publication: for the proceedings of the whole event see official website