Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909. In 1916 his family moved to Petrograd, where he witnessed the Russian Revolution, and in 1921 he emigrated to England. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was later appointed Professor of Social and Political Theory. He served as the first president of Wolfson College, Oxford, and as president of the British Academy. He died in 1997. For more information, see the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.
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Shostakovich at Oxford
July 16, 2009
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A Letter on Human Nature
September 23, 2004
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Notes on Prejudice
October 18, 2001
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The Arts in Russia Under Stalin
October 19, 2000
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The First and the Last
May 14, 1998
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On Political Judgment
October 3, 1996
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‘The Magus of the North’
November 18, 1993
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The Magus of the North
October 21, 1993
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The Detention of Sari Nussiebeh
March 7, 1991
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No Conservative
December 20, 1990
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Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism: III
October 25, 1990
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Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism: II
October 11, 1990
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An Open Letter on Anti-Armenian Pogroms in the Soviet Union
September 27, 1990
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Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism
September 27, 1990
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On the Pursuit of the Ideal
March 17, 1988
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Polish-Jewish Studies
January 30, 1986
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A Note on ‘Khovanshchina’
December 19, 1985
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The Gentle Genius
October 27, 1983
Turgenev’s Letters selected, translated, and edited by A.V. Knowles
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Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak
November 20, 1980
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The Hedgehog and the Fox Continued
October 9, 1980
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Einstein and Israel
November 8, 1979
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‘A Revolutionary Without Fanaticism’
April 19, 1979
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Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament Part III
November 15, 1973
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Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament Part II
November 1, 1973
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Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the Liberal Predicament
October 18, 1973
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An Exchange on Machiavelli
April 6, 1972
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George Seferis
December 16, 1971
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A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli
November 4, 1971
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A Note on Vico’s Concept of Knowledge
April 24, 1969
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Herzen’s Circle
June 20, 1968
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The Great Amateur
March 14, 1968
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A Great Russian Writer
December 23, 1965
The Prose of Osip Mandelstam translated with an Introductory Essay by Clarence Brown