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  • Published: 7 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141393179
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

Russian Thinkers

  • Isaiah Berlin



This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface

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 in the world’.

  • Published: 7 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141393179
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448

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Praise for Russian Thinkers

The enduring vitality of Berlin's characterisation of Russian thought is demonstrated by the publication [...] of a new edition of Russian Thinkers, painstakingly revised and augmented by Henry Hardy ... a series of sparkling and sympathetic essays

Times Literary Supplement