The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

For Teddy Kollek ([Jerusalem, 1981]: The Jerusalem Foundation), 7 pp.

Introduction and unattributed contributions to H. G. Nicholas (ed.), Washington Despatches 1941–45: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy (London, 1981: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Chicago, 1981: Chicago University Press), vii–xiv

• introduction repr. in Flourishing

Translation, with Introduction, of Ivan Turgenev, A Month in the Country (London, 1981: Hogarth Press; New York, 1982: Viking; Harmondsworth, 1983: Penguin)

• See also the details of the recording of the National Theatre's production of the play in June 1981, B.69

Reply to Hans Aarsleff, ‘Vico and Berlin’, London Review of Books, 5–18 November 1981, 7–8; letter, 3–16 June 1982, 5

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‘Russian Thought and the Slavophile Controversy’, review of Andrzej Walicki, A History of Russian Thought (From the Enlightenment to Marxism) and The Slavophile Controversy, Slavonic and East European Review 59 (1981), 572–86

• trans. Russian

Contribution to ‘Books of the Year: A Personal Choice’, Observer, 6 December 1981, 25

‘Plea for a Library’ (letter), Jewish Chronicle, 25 December 1981, 16

Contributions to Sandra Martin and Roger Hall (eds), Where Were You? Memorable Events of the Twentieth Century (Toronto etc., 1981: Methuen)

• 119–20 (Pearl Harbor)
• 183–4 (Cuban Missile Crisis)
• 206–7 (Assassination of John F. Kennedy)
• 220 (Russian Revolution)
• 227–8 (Six-Day War); repr. as ‘Where Was I?’ in Personal Impressions (3rd ed., 2014)
• excerpts from first, second, third and last contributions trans. Spanish

‘How Russian and English Lines Can Get Crossed’ (letter), Guardian, 19 February 1981, 12

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‘In Einstein’s Opinion’ (letter), Observer, 24 May 1981, 16

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Alex Hamilton, Guardian, 17 February 1981, 9

Bernard Levin, ‘The Levin Interview’, BBC2 Television, 23 May 1981

• not published

Aarsleff, Hans, ‘Vico and Berlin’, London Review of Books, 5–18 November 1981, 6–7

• reply by IB, ibid., 7–8
• letters from Aarsleff and IB, 3–16 June 1982, 5

Michael Biddiss, ‘The Nuremberg Trial: Two Exercises in Judgment’, Journal of Contemporary History 16 no. 3 [The Second World War: Part 2] (July 1981), 597–615, at 600–1

Llosa, Mario Vargas, ‘Un héroe de nuestro tiempo’, introduction to El erizo y la zorra (Barcelona, 1981: Muchnik)

• serialised in El Comercio (Lima), October–December 1980
• repr. in Mario Vargas Llosa, Contra viento y marea (1962–1982) (Barcelona, 1983: Seix Barral), 406–24, and id., Contra viento y marea, II (1972–1984) (Barcelona, 1986: Seix Barral), 260–78
• excerpted in English as ‘Isaiah Berlin: A Hero of Our Time’ in id., Making Waves, ed. and trans. John King (London, 1996: Faber; New York, 1997: Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 144–7

Sellery, J’nan M., and William O. Harris, Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliogrpahy (Austin, 1981: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas)

Watson, Peter, ‘Brains of Britain “The Big-League Tables” ’, Encounter, October 1981, 93

Williams, B., Moral Luck: Philosophical Papers, 1973–1980 (Cambridge, 1981: Cambridge University Press)

Boxill, J. B., ‘Positive and Negative Freedom in Classical and Radical Liberalism’, Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Los Angeles (1981)

‘Russian Thought and the Slavophile Controversy’

Russian