Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 31
Page 21
... Petrograd to secure compensation for his fire loss , in an atmosphere , so he hoped , ' less poisonous ' than that ... Petrograd , where he now worked for the Russian government supplying timber for the railway system . Several members ...
... Petrograd to secure compensation for his fire loss , in an atmosphere , so he hoped , ' less poisonous ' than that ... Petrograd , where he now worked for the Russian government supplying timber for the railway system . Several members ...
Page 25
... Petrograd in the autumn of 1917 , Isaiah noticed , as they drove home in a taxi , that the walls of the city were plastered with posters for elections to the new constituent assembly . Already young men were tearing down the posters of ...
... Petrograd in the autumn of 1917 , Isaiah noticed , as they drove home in a taxi , that the walls of the city were plastered with posters for elections to the new constituent assembly . Already young men were tearing down the posters of ...
Page 33
... Petrograd , but evidently they were not enough . When asked in later life what English he actually possessed on arrival in exile , he liked to sing in a high , whispered voice , ' It von't be a stylish marridze . I can't afford a ...
... Petrograd , but evidently they were not enough . When asked in later life what English he actually possessed on arrival in exile , he liked to sing in a high , whispered voice , ' It von't be a stylish marridze . I can't afford a ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A.J. Ayer Aline Berlin American Anna Akhmatova Arabs asked Ayer became began believed British Burgess Chaim Weizmann Churchill communist culture dinner Eliot embassy English essay feeling Felix Frankfurter felt Foreign Office Frankfurter freedom friends German Gurion Halban Halifax Headington House Henry Hardy human IB to Mary idea intellectual Isaiah Berlin Isaiah remembered Israel Jewish Jews Joe Alsop knew lecture letter liberal liberty lived logical positivism London looked Mandelstam Marx Maurice Bowra Mendel Berlin MI/IV IB mind moral Moscow mother never Noel Annan Oxford Palestine Pasternak Petrograd philosophy poet political President PRO/FO realised replied returned Riga Romantic Russian sceptical seemed sense Shiela Grant Duff social Souls Soviet St Paul's Stalin Stephen Spender story Stuart Hampshire summer T.S. Eliot talk thought timber told took Trott Turgenev undated undergraduate Washington Weizmann Wolfson College words write wrote York young Zionist