Russian Thinkers

About this book

Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, 'The Hedgehog and the Fox,' Berlin considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and others of the Russian intelligentsia, who made up, as Berlin describes, 'the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.' (Source: [Penguin Books](https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/13561/russian-thinkers-by-isaiah-berlin-ed-henry-hardy-intro-aileen-kelly-other--jason-ferrell/9780141442204))

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About the author

Isaiah Berlin

6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997

Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas. Although averse to writing, his improvised lectures and talks were recorded and transcribed, with his spoken word being converted by his secretaries into his published essays and books. **Source**: [Isaiah Berlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin) on Wikipedia.