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Obituary

Isaiah Berlin

Sir Isaiah Berlin O.M. died on 8th November at the age of 88. As a political philosopher and historian of ideas, he started his career well by managing to see the Russian Revolution at first hand as an eight year old boy in Petrograd. A descendant of the mystical founder of the Jewish Chassidic movement, he was a champion of liberalism and had a deep interest in Russian political thought and in non-liberal philosophy.

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