Russian Thinkers (Penguin Classics) (U)

Isaiah Berlin Witnessed The Excesses Of The Russian Revolution As A Child. In Becoming One Of The Key Liberal Intellects Of The Last Century He Made Some Of His Most Important Contributions On Russian Thought And The Idea Of Freedom. In The Ten Essays Gathered Here, Berlin Addresses The Great Russian Minds Of The Nineteenth Century - Herzen, Bakunin, Belinsky, Tolstoy And Turgenev - As Well As Exploring The Political And Social Revolutions They Inspired And Responded To. Berlin Himself Describes This Extraordinary Outpouring Of Ideas As 'the Largest Single Russian Contribution To Social Change In The World'. This New Edition, Specially Prepared For Penguin Classics, Has Been Completely Reset With An Expanded Index And New Editorial Apparatus, Including A Glossary Of Names. Aileen Kelly's Introduction Shows How Berlin, In Combining The Pragmatism Of English Liberalism And The Aspirations Of European Idealism, Revealed That It Is Through Men's Moral Ideals That They May Become Free Of Tyranny.--book Jacket. Introduction: A Complex Vision / Aileen Kelly -- Russia And 1848 -- The Hedgehog And The Fox -- Herzen And Bakunin On Individual Liberty -- A Remarkable Decade: The Birth Of The Russian Intelligentsia ; German Romanticism In Petersburg And Moscow ; Vissarion Belinsky ; Alexander Herzen -- Russian Populism -- Tolstoy And Enlightenment -- Fathers And Children. Isaiah Berlin ; Edited By Henry Hardy And Aileen Kelly ; With An Introduction By Aileen Kelly. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.