Concordance to Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin: A Life

The heavily revised second edition (2023) was completely reset. This concordance facilitates the conversion of page references to the first edition into page references to the second (and vice versa). Some revisions were made in the first paperback edition (2000): this list uses the original hardback edition (1998). The Index is not covered.

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[i] ISAIAH BERLIN [i] Pushkin Press [MI bio added]
[ii] By the same author [ii][blank] [list deleted]
[iii] ISAIAH BERLIN [iii] Isaiah Berlin
[iv] First published 1998 [iv] Pushkin Press
[v] For S. Z. [v] For Zsuzsanna
[vi] [blank] [vi] [blank]
[vii] Contents [vii] Contents
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[ix] Illustrations ix Illustrations
[x] [blank] x 22  Isaiah with Andrei Sakharov
xi Preface to the Second Edition
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1 Albany 1 Albany
2 coloured suit 1 Albany
3 attend funerals 3 woman he loved
4 time one learns 4 the voice which
5 He looks now 5 With him, thinking
6 bottles, ointments 6 in a Salzburg
7 very Russian 7 simply there
8 make it manifest 8 He was candid
9 embrace him 10 magazines
10 Riga, 1909–15 11 Riga
11 in bitterness 12 pray for a son
12 there in 1900 13 an Orthodox cathedral there in 1898
13 in a spidery hand 14 confined by statute
14 His son would 15 grandfather
15 one of the most 17 The oracle
16 Schaie 18 business Shaya
17 democrats 19 the spas
18 at the age 20 he was timid
19 hasse diese 21 hasse diese
20 Petrograd, 1916–20 22 Petrograd and After
21 retreat along 22 Petrograd and After
22 already in Petrograd 24 In 1916 soon joined them in Petrograd
23 knowledge tossed 25 This childhood
24 for Winter Palace 26 of opera
25 To escape the heat 27 indelible impression
26 explain his dealings 28 talking earnestly
27 woman of strong 30 perhaps – the Berlins
28 The family spent 32 The family spent
29 had been interrogated 32 The family spent [deleted]
30 intense indignation 33 some jewellery
31 that he still had 34 Marie Berlin
32 plywood deal 35 enough to stay
33 London, 1921–8 37 London
34 while all the 37 London
35 the dilemmas 39 reconcile a sense
36 synonymous in 40 secured the services
37 after they had 41 If the English
38 have made, his 42 not shown up
39 until after the 43 […] That’s why [quotation corrected]
40 worship in 45 a school visit
41 In a schoolboy 46 about ultimates
42 keeping the major 47 In a letter written
43 London, where 48 London school
44 Rachmilievich 49 to pay his way Rachmilevich
45 instinctive law 51 Convention does
46 Oxford, 1928–32 52 Oxford
47 Berlin remembered 52 Oxford
48 and then begin 54 and one of the
49 having drunk 55 Humphry House
50 Berlin’s undergraduate 56 gramophone records
51 Wadham College 57 found his way
52 When Isaiah later 59 free association
53 Spender’ political 69 I cannot exaggerate
54 to understand how 61 them for better
55 cultural home 62 sleeper bound
56 of the feeling 63 a diminutive
57 intentions 64 he was worrying
58 good to me 65 Another figure Scott rejected him out of hand
59 persuaded the college’s 67 pretensions
60 sentiments exactly 68 Berlin liked
61 the more 69 Apart from the Fishers
62 All Souls 71 All Souls
63 same way, nor 71 All Souls
64 always worn 73 detestation
65 into print in 74 his door
66 whether she liked 75 Cork. He found
67 her in London 76 minces and mouths
68 her hair in a bun 77 literature in
69 Our meeting 78 dome to be placed
70 Karl Marx 79 of talking volume on Karl Marx for
71 sworn enemies 81 To write about
72 found it difficult 82 renegade who
73 pro-appeasement 83 who rejected
74 are being too 84 of Czechoslovakia “Look, this is too pedantic”
75 China and Japan 85 prosecutor’s office
76 these doubts 87 opposed it
77 The Brethren, 1934–40 88 The Brethren
78 honking, policemen 88 The Brethren
79 imperial machinations 90 Maugham novel
80 with Palestine 91 suspected of swapping
81 Hall, they 92 shrugged
82 or tested 93 Berlin kept
83 Tractatus 94 considering how
84 Isaiah. He too 95 be the analysis
85 function as 97 essential function
86 demolishing 98 Words rarely
87 Ayer’s categories 00 published little
88 certify them 100 He was good
89 Turks believed 101 If the narrowly
90 Characteristically 102 Hampshire’s letter
91 who leaped out 104 who leaped out
92 garden, in an 105 Jewess who
93 emigration 106 Weizmann would
94 same. Bowra 107 Marx
95 G.E.Moore 108 On 23 May 1940
96 unstable 109 with his arguments ‘I am terribly unstable. It suddenly came over me, this […]’.
97 Isaiah’s War: New York, 1940–1 111 New York
98 Government, with 111 New York
99 He could see 113 Riga, and snuffed
100 confessed that 114 When Berlin
101 consultations 115 be given a job
102 New York and 116 returned to New York
103 its vulgarity 117 American coal miners
104 permanent minority 118 those who saw
105 exclaimed 120 Zionist cause
106 then turns to me 121 friend, dining
107 Saturday in 122 Jewish commonwealth
108 possessed outran 123 censors and
109 Isaiah’s War: Washington, 1942–5 125 Washington
110 seemed to bypass 126 and columnists
111 The All Souls 127 house called Hockley
112 Quite soon, he 128 smart people
113 around the country 129 handsome, Berlin
114 that inside 130 pieces of gossip
115 Throughout this period 131 investigated and
116 to keep the 133 ill than he had [plates transferred to 196–203]
117 increasingly alarmed 134 ‘narrow policy’
118 Meanwhile, Morgenthau 135 the British Government
119 that he remained 136 have told the story
120 despatch he argued 137 force them to
121 In a meeting 138 figures safely
122 simply could not 139 likely to be
123 escaped Berlin’s 141 reasons the full
124 after Moyne’s death 142 easily stated
125 certain that such 143 shape to their
126 problems. At 144 Isaiah himself
127 the achievements 145 ‘I sincerely hope so.’
128 Harry Hopkins 147 The pallid host
129 who had horrible 148 and they’re very [anecdote revised]
130 something more 149 The evening broke
131 the Harvard Faculty 150 He had tired
132 circle of the 1930s 151 hated thinking
133 kept him in 152 been one of the
134 Potsdam after all 153 personal translator
135 Moscow, 1945 156 Moscow
136 Stalin’s reward 156 Moscow
137 the cultural élite 158 From his first
138 Sister Life 159 copy of Thomas
139 borscht. He reported 160 rooms, where
140 one had survived 161 Need I describe
141 collective farms 162 Leo, for his part
142 said, with great 163 Minister, and
143 conference, the 165 remark at the
144 which point Stalin 166 realising that
145 Hemingway 167 of his own
146 and Pasternak 168 challenge Pasternak
147 degree that modernism 169 The girl
148 Leningrad, 1945 171 Leningrad
149 crawled along 171 Leningrad
150 Isaiah struck up 173 important clients
151 Would you like 174 Isaiah had read
152 husband, Nikolai 174 Isaiah had read Nikolay
153 How long before 176 Dear Ariosto And how long before
154 the city was 177 Then something
155 Would rather peer 178 She allowed herself
156 keeping to herself 179 As they talked
157 his worth. But 180 had had a brief
158 which she was 181 of the purest
159 resume a scholar’s 183 Soviet Union, and
160 an occasional glint 184 their only disagreement
161 asked he whether 185 historical and erotic
162 He had seen the 186 in company with
163 As if on the rim 187 On 4 January 1946
164 silent and empty 189 On parting, he empty and silent
165 In the St Petersburg 190 And what kind
166 mind. He was back 191 discussed Isaiah
167 She had no doubt 192 a newspaper
168 unconvincing odes 193 This was grandiose unconvincing patriotic odes
169 prominent Jewish 194 Stalin died in 1953 [plates occupy 196–211]
170 The Tribe, 1946–8 212 The Tribe
171 know Isaiah in 212 The Tribe
172 number of Woolworth 214 approaching an
173 of the austerity 215 stools, neglected
174 At least in France 216 human life At least a certain Cartesian lucidity
175 socialist revolutionary 217 past, relieving
176 taking responsibility 219 The problem was
177 the British mandate 220 are determined
178 natural bristles 222 lives, so that
179 He had just 223 never heard
180 elegant and 224 With some relief
181 occasional qualms 225 While the British
182 After staying 226 This letter was
183 did not ‘wish 227 Isaiah loved did ‘not wish
184 Zionism was 229 people – to choose
185 faculties for 230 own community
186 poet since the 231 that Berlin should
187 neighbours, or 232 In a letter
188 there should not 233 Eliot was
189 Cold War, 1949–53 235 Cold War
190 He burrowed 235 Cold War
191 who specialised 237 was often racy
192 isolationism 238 In May 1949
193 reassuring note 239 planners believed for his advice about what to do
194 Berlin gave every 240 Although he sided
195 research – was 241 Burgess. Berlin
196 an armour 242 In the autumn
197 academic complexity 243 artistic ability
198 Foreign Affairs 245 Out of this inner
199 The left’s reaction 246 leadership, or
200 American secret 247 knew all the major
201 know one’s fate 248 men into abandoning
202 cultures that 249 The fox had shaped by the cultures
203 tyranny 250 just such a state
204 and elaboration 252 This was history
205 in his barbed 253 In the autumn
206 that human beings 254 School of Economics
207 monolithic whole 255 their conduct
208 Late Awakening 256 Late Awakening
209 Douglas had ignited 256 Late Awakening
210 climactic scenes 258 First Love
211 house in Hampstead 259 had briefly been
212 the age of twenty-four 260 to judge and blame [plates transferred to 204–11]
213 became an adventure 261 and thought he looked
214 He could sense 262 Weidenfeld and
215 than he had expected 264 death had ‘a far
216 bowed to both of them 265 Soon afterwards
217 necessary. He 266 irregularity of
218 culture and civilisation 267 and spring of 1955
219 ecstatic letter 268 mistress Jacqueline ecstatic postcard
220 ironic – about 269 mother, the
221 Fame, 1957–63 271 Fame
222 displacing their 271 Fame
223 complaining about 273 Post made much of
224 genius for transposing 274 that sense of being
225 Their caveats 275 he enjoyed a
226 Key elements 276 lest he be rendered
227 than a defence 277 The European
228 would be inexplicable 278 to keep out of
229 could clarify 280 was incorrigibly
230 political principles 281 only in societies
231 freedom to transform 282 George Kennan
232 regime was still 284 Berlin was also
233 pencil, substituting 285 cross his face
234 asked for a statement 286 at the Randolph
235 There had never 287 In April 1961
236 1961 E.H. Carr 288 The Deutscher affair
237 Berlin wrote to 289 Carr’s lectures
238 In October 1961 290–1 to failure On 20 October 1961
239 Berlin now was 292 intellectual history Berlin was now
240 intellectual 293 as American
241 dinner party 294 impression was
242 had not been 295 (The Bay of Pigs fiasco)
243 Berlin was obviously 296 Had he been more
244 Liberal at Bay, 1963–71 298 Liberal at Bay
245 question there must 298 Liberal at Bay
246 Why was Berlin 300 tragedy was
247 personal predicament 301 than he seemed
248 world not just 302 The Romantics
249 Berlin focused 303 something new
250 nation, and to 304 of real consequence
251 within him, as 305 Apart from these
252 him to wet a 306 shouted a great
253 image, in a sense 308 role as guru image, and in a sense
254 The distaste for 309 from the safety
255 stone. But I must 310 made him uneasily
256 Earlier than most 311 with friends who
257 be open, receptive 312 into revolutionary
258 a married woman 314 to follow. This
259 Wolfson, 1966–75 316 Wolfson
260 ‘waste-paper basket’ 316 Wolfson
261 thought Berlin mad 318 When he heard
262 Commission. It 319 graduate education
263 as an adviser 320 was seeking it
264 universities instead 321 president, Bundy
265 make to the Wolfsons 322 young university
266 Letters of astonished 324 The deed was done
267 examples of modern 325 rise above the cheap
268 of the proposed 326 Moya a stream
269 meanly appointed 327 and said, ‘My name
270 suspected. Those 328 period are full suspected he had. Those
271 he was in the process 329 had to transcribe committed he was to the process
272 required constant nursing 331 pined and reproached
273 Retrospect, 1975–97 333 Retrospect
274 of the place 333 Retrospect
275 from a hard-pressed 335 projects […] that
276 North Library 336 North Library
277 the fall of communism 337 on the room
278 essential feature 338 the quiet of
279 voice came as a 340 still sing his favourite
280 of editorial work 341 his essays. He
281 especially close 342 he had often
282 unfinished manuscripts 343 Pasternak
283 productive. The 344 Foundation, the
284 mystified by this 345 two Festschrifts
285 values of late modernity 346 and financier
286 These were indeed 348 a conceptual truth
287 He would have denied 349 values that must
288 One dares not look 350 Paraggi. The
289 Although he lost 351 Bennett and Jean Floud Mary Bennett
290 and Akhmatova’s 352 As an expatriate
291 Epilogue 353 Epilogue
292 wrote what turned 355 television interviews [major addition on 353–5]
293 of his life he saw 356 to suppose that men
294 deal to him 357 As he rethought
295 emotions were easy 358 the ancient faith
296 Salzburg or Pesaro 359 him from raging
297 dangerous, since 360 filled in, he would
298 Israelis to agree 362 16 October 1997
299 of his life, correcting 363 remember in previous
300 Tehi nishmato 364 measure as I had
301 man he wished had 365 At memorial
302 [blank]
303 Acknowledgements 367 Acknowledgements
304 at Magdalen College 367 Acknowledgements
305 of these versions [368] [two paragraphs deleted]
306 permission of Mrs Valerie Eliot 369 and making suggestions
307 Notes 371 Notes [371–4 largely revised/rewritten]
308 ZP: Zionist Politics [374] [deleted]
309 2. RIGA, 1906–15 375 PREFACE [endnotes heavily revised throughout]
310 4. LONDON, 1921–8 377 4. LONDON
311 9  IB to Jenifer 379 19  PI 152.
312 15  IB to Spender 380 6. ALL SOULS
313 Adam von Trott zu Solz 381 30  H. A. L. Fisher Papers
314 possession of Cressida Ridley 383 23  Hampshire in ‘I’m Going’
315 8. ISAIAH’S WAR 384 56  Cambridge University
316 34  MI/IV Daphne Straight 385 17  loc. cit. (note 15).
317 32  PRO/FO 371/40131 387 29  IB to Angus Malcolm
318 63  IB to H.G. Nicholas 388 51  IB to his parents
319 16  IB to M. Berlin 389 79  Tape 12-1: 12.
320 10  See the ‘chronology’ 391 10  PI 400–1.
321 44  Reeder 392 43  ibid. 619.
322 12  Ronald Hope 393 12. THE TRIBE
323 46  Abba Eban 393 48  IB to Chaim Weizmann
324 68  T.S. Eliot 396 69  POI 212–15.
325 China, Bevin, etc. 397 9  Edward Prichard
326 11.52, but his remarks 399 ‘I HAVE READ
327 3  MI/IV IB, 10.11.94. 400 52  PIRA 172.
328 humanity as Casals 402 29  IB to Josephine Singer
329 13  Edmund Ions 403 people who entertain
330 Astor, 27.10.58 405 41  IB to Anna Kallin
331 58  IB to Shirley Anglesey 406 note), 31.1.62
332 your sense, outside 407 81  ibid. 7:39.
333 33  IB in Cecil Woolf 409 Joe as a squalid
334 14  IB to Pat Utechin 410 11  IB to John Sparrow
335 46  IB/IV in THES 411 37  IB to Sylvester Gates
336 11  IB to James Billington 412 59  IB to Jean Floud
337 40  IB to Morton White 414 Universalism in the
338 24  Noel Anna 415 natural morality.’
339 Index 417 Index [index revised throughout]