Corrections to Russian Thinkers
The second edition of this collection (London etc., 2008: Penguin Classics) contains corrections to the first edition (London, 1978: Hogarth Press; New York, 1978: Viking) far too numerous to list here. The first list below includes only corrections to the second edition (made in subsequent impressions, apart from the corrections in this colour). The second list draws attention to the main changes between editions, but there are numerous other substantial if small changes.
| Page | Line | For | Read |
| i | 6–5 up | first volume appeared in 2004 | second volume appeared in 2009 |
| ii | after 4 | [add new paragraph:] | JASON FERRELL is a Faculty Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, where he teaches political theory and international relations. His research interests include value pluralism, German romanticism and nineteenth-century Russian literature. He has also taught an online course on Isaiah Berlin, and has published on Berlin’s ideas. |
| 9 | 9 up | Orthodoxy, autocracy | autocracy, Orthodoxy |
| 48 | 8 | Fili | Letashevka |
| 107 | 16 | life is itself | life is life itself |
| 218 | 6 up | true solutions | a true solution |
| 299 | 6 | Tartar | Tatar |
| 13 | dark | the darkness of | |
| 14 | ... | [...] | |
| 323 | note 3, 1 | the fathers | fathers |
| 335 | 7 | 1876 | 1877 |
| 382 | s.v. Zasulich, 6–5 up | two journals, Iskra (the Spark) and Zarya (Dawn), wrote articles, | the radical newspaper Iskra (the Spark), as well as the journal Zarya (Dawn); wrote articles; |
| 394 | s.v. Bakunin | antipathy to Germans, 233 | antipathy to Germans, 126, 233 |
| 398 | s.v. Germany | Bakunin condemns for servility, 126 | Bakunin’s antipathy to, 126, 233 |
| 400 | col. 1, 4 up | 107 | 107, 224 |
Main changes in the second edition
| Item / page reference in second edition | Change |
| All footnotes and quotations | Checked and often substantially revised; notes added where missing (examples below are not exhaustive) |
| Editorial preface | Completely rewritten |
| Note on the cover photograph | New |
| Abbreviations and conventions | New |
| Introduction | Revised; footnotes added |
| 3 note 1 | Source added and details corrected |
| 17 note 2 | Quotation corrected; note added |
| ‘The Hedgehog and the Fox’ | Text from PSM used, with mostly minor revisions (this text, among other changes, adds translations of French quotations) |
| 110 note 1 | Quotation corrected; note added |
| ‘A Remarkable Decade’ | Footnotes added and quotations corrected |
| 193 | Quotation beginning ‘I am tormented [...]’ reordered |
| 197–8 | Paragraph bridging these pages brought into line with version on p. 299 |
| ‘Russian Populism’ | Footnotes added and quotations corrected |
| 260 note 2 | Statistics corrected |
| ‘Tolstoy and Enlightenment’ | Footnotes added and quotations corrected |
| 299 | Epigraph brought into line with version on pp. 197–8 |
| 318 note 2 | Major changes to text and note |
| 323 note 1 | Repeated quotation (see p. 348) removed at end of passage |
| 324–8 | Illustrations added |
| 337 note 1 | Correct novel substituted |
| Glossary of names | New |
| Index | Completely revised |