The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Weizmann, V., The Impossible Takes Longer (London, 1967: Hamish Hamilton)

The Role of the Intelligentsia

• Talk to the Annual Conference of the University Teachers’ Group
• Recording date: 14/3/68
• First transmission: 7.30 pm 23/4/68 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 35 minutes
• Repeat(s): 5.30 pm 11/8/68 BBC Third Programme
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BBC Sound Archives MT32704; BLSA Tape 1145W
• Publication: ‘The Role of the Intelligentsia’, Listener 79 (1968), 563–5 = Bibliography 111

Introduction to Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen, trans. Constance Garnett (London, 1968: Chatto and Windus; New York, 1968: Knopf)

• ed. and abridged by Dwight Macdonald, New York, 1973: Knopf; London, 1974: Chatto and Windus; Berkeley, 1982: University of California Press, 25 pp.
• repr. as ‘The Great Amateur’, New York Review of Books, 14 March 1968, 9–18 (see also 111c below)
• as ‘Herzen and his Memoirs’ in Against the Current
• in Robert B. Silvers, Barbara Epstein and Rea S. Hederman (eds), The First Anthology: 30 Years of The New York Review of Books (New York, 1993: New York Review of Books)
• in The Proper Study of Mankind
• trans. German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish

‘A Great Benefactor’ [Isaac Wolfson], Rehovot, Summer 1968, 18–21

Comment on Richard Pipes, ‘The Origins of Bolshevism: The Intellectual Evolution of Young Lenin’, in Richard Pipes (ed.), Revolutionary Russia (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968: Harvard University Press), 52–9

‘The “ Naïveté ” of Verdi’, Hudson Review 21 (1968), 138–47

• repr. from Atti del I congresso internazionale di studi verdiani, 1966 (Parma, 1969: Istituto di Studi Verdiani), 27–35

Reprinted in:

• About The House 3 no. 1 (March 1969), 8–13
• New Republic, 6 October 1979, 30–4
• Ernani (opera programme) ([Cardiff, 1979]: Welsh National Opera) (abridged)
• William Weaver and Martin Chusid (eds), The Verdi Companion (London, 1980: Gollancz)
• Opera 31 (1980), 128–35
• Against the Current

Translated into French, German, Japanese

‘The Role of the Intelligentsia’, Listener 79 (1968), 563–5

• repr. in Derwent May (ed.), Good Talk 2: An Anthology from BBC Radio (London, 1969: Gollancz)
• The Power of Ideas (2nd ed., 2013)

Contribution to ‘Books of the Year: A Personal Choice’, Observer, 22 December 1968, 17

IB's contributions to a conference at the LSE, 19–21 May 1967, held under the title ‘To Define Populism’

• A published summary of the proceedings is in Government and Opposition 3 no. 2 (1968), 137–79, where IB's contributions are at 140, 173–8: see Bib.111(b)(ii)
• A complete transcript of the proceedings of the conference, including more material by IB, is in the library of the LSE under the title ‘London School of Economics Conference on Populism, May 20–21, 1967: Verbatim report’, shelfmark HN 17 C74

(with Martin A. Miller) Herzen’s Circle, New York Review of Books, 20 June 1968 (see also 108 above)

Foreword to G. L. Seidler, The Emergence of the Eastern World: Seven Essays on Political Ideas (Oxford etc., 1968: Pergamon), ix

Anderson, Perry, ‘Components of the National Culture’, New Left Review 50 (July–August 1968), 3–57, esp. 25–8

• repr. in Alexander Cockburn and Robin Blackburn (eds), Student Power (Harmondsworth, 1969: Penguin), 214–84, esp. 239–42 and 281

Hopkinson, Diana, The Incense-Tree: An Autobiography (London, 1968), esp. 84

Milne, Alan J. M., Freedom and Rights (London, 1968: Allen and Unwin)

Sykes, Christopher, Troubled Loyalty: A Biography of Adam von Trott zu Solz (London, 1968: Collins), esp. pp. 100, 110–11 (and see index s.v. IB)

Introduction to Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts

German

(Suhrkamp, 1976) (Insel, 1987)

Russian

‘Aleksandr Gertsen i ego memuary’, trans. V Sapov with introduction on IB and his work, Voprosy literatury (March–April 2000), 111–42

Spanish

‘The “Naïveté” of Verdi’

French

‘La naïveté de Verdi’, trans. André Berelowitch, in Attila (Paris, 2001–2: Opera National de Paris), 62–7 [opera programme]

German

‘Verdis Naivität’, in Salzburg Festival Programme (1998), 56–61

Japanese

‘Verdi no“sobokusa” ’, trans. Haruo Tanaka, in Selected Works of Berlin, 4 vols (Tokyo, 1983–92: Iwanami Shoten), vol. 1 (1983)

‘The Role of the Intelligentsia’

Thai

• trans. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal and Chayanggoon Thamma-un, Intelligentsia no. 2 [‘So What Thailand?’] (2019), 24–35

Verdi and Schiller

• Talk
• Recording date: 23/10/68? (unidentified date on transcript)
• First transmission: 6.40 pm 11/1/69 BBC Third Programme
• Duration: 35 minutes 45 seconds
• Repeat(s): 7.30 pm 21/2/69 BBC Third Programme
• Transcript: BBC Written Archives
• Recording: BLSA Tape 1314R

Turgenev

• Cambridge Union Lecture, ?Dec. 1969
• BBC transcript; not broadcast
• Producer: Jack Amos
• Transcript: Berlin Papers