About this title: Isaiah Berlin witnessed the excesses of the Russian Revolution as a child, and in becoming one of the key liberal intellects of the last century some of his most important contributions were on the subject of Russia and the concept of freedom. In the ten essays gathered here, Berlin addresses the great Russian minds of the nineteenth century: Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky and Tolstoy, as well as exploring the political and social revolutions they inspired and responded to. Berlin himself describes this extraordinary outpouring as 'the largest single Russian contribution to social change ...
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Description: Good. 1979-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin, Harmondsworth
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780140222609ISBN:014022260X
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Book cover fine, minimal rub, pages clean, crisp and binding tight, with index. xxiv, 312p.; 20 cm. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780670613717ISBN:0670613711
Description: Very good in fair dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 312 p. Documents of 20th-Century Art, 1. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1994-10-25
ISBN-13:9780140136258ISBN:0140136258
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780140222609ISBN:014022260X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. owner notes and underlines in pencil, ink owner signature. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Pelican Books. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780140136258ISBN:0140136258
Description: Very Good. Very Good; softcover, pictorial wraps, minor underlining, marginalia. Essays about Russian thinkers by renowned author Berlin. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780140136258ISBN:0140136258
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780140136258ISBN:0140136258
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Description: Good; Collectible. 1978 Viking forst edition first printing-much wear to dust jacket (now in mylar cover) some foxing to page edge and cover-otherwise binding strong contents clean-enjoy. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN-13:9780141442204ISBN:0141442204
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780140222609ISBN:014022260X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Edited by Henry Hardy and Aileen Kelly. With an Introduction by Aileen Kelly. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 312 p. Pelican Books. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780141442204ISBN:0141442204
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 448 pages. Presenting ten essays, the author addresses the russian minds of the ni*n*e*t*eenth century: herzen, bakunin, turgenev, belinsky and tolstoy, as well as exploring the political and social revolutions they inspired and responded to. he describes this as 'the largest single russian contribution to social change in the world'. (Paperback) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Blue/gilt hardback cloth cover
Publisher: The Hogarth Press, London
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780701204389ISBN:0701204389
Description: VG: in very good condition with dustwrapper. 312pp: 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6") read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780670613717ISBN:0670613711
Description: Good in good dust jacket. dust cover notched in several places and shows sun darkening in some areas, Book itself is very clean. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 312 p. Documents of 20th-Century Art, 1. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
"I actually couldn't get through this book. I tried hard though. Really hard. It's very academic and a little over my head as far as the amount of philosophy and Russian history/literature. I plan to mail this book ot a philosophy major friend."
"If one reads only two books to understand Russian thought, Berlin's should be one of them. Berlin's essays line up Russian liberal intelligentsia for close, dazzling, and critical examination: Herzen, Bakunin, Belinsky, Turgenev, and most of all Tolstoy. His essay "The Hedgehog and the Fox," which argues that Tolstoy "was by nature a fox but believed in being a hedgehog" (read for more) is so successful I hasten to point to "A Remarkable Decade" (1838-1848) which reviews the emergence of the Russian public literary class.
The problem with Berlin is his success in the West. Reading his book alone leaves the reader thinking the prominent strain of Russian intellectual thought is classically liberal. Nope. Berlin treats the outliers, not the substance, of Russian thought. His is a brilliantly high standard of criticism, but his scope is far from representative.
Now, if one agrees to three books, the third is up to you and the second to Berlin should be valuable and politically charged Richard Pipes' /Russian Conservatism and its Critics/ (2007) which recounts the work and times of thinkers like Catharine II, Karamazin, Chaadaev, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Leontiev and many others (to complete the point) too unfamiliar to mention. Between the two, the backdrop against which to understand the puzzle we call contemporary Russia becomes a little brighter."
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