1838-1848
A series of four lectures by Isaiah Berlin
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
2-Belinsky: the Impact of Western Ideas
In his four Northcliffe Lectures on Russian literature and social criticism (originally delivered last autumn at University College, London), Isaiah Berlin speaks about the rise of the Russian intelligentsia, and in particular about its earliest and greatest representatives: Herzen, Belinsky, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky. He describes the life and opinions and the personal relations of this remarkable circle.