Volumes of The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell


Volume 21: How to Keep the Peace: The Pacifist Dilemma, 1935–38

Edited by Andrew G. Bone and Michael D. Stevenson
London and New York: Routledge, 2008
Pages: lxxxiv, 904
ISBN: 978-0-415-09417-7



Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. UNCERTAIN PROSPECTS FOR PEACE

1 On Isolationism [1935]
2 Profits and War [1935]
3 Hitler’s Thirteen Points [1935]
4 Dangers in the Far East [1935]
5 Pitfalls in Security Pacts [1935]
6 The British Labour Party and Hitler [1935]
7 If You Were Foreign Minister What Would You Do about Abyssinia? [1935]
8 The Home Office, the Labour Party and Air Raid Precautions [1935]
a Your Duty in the Next War
b Air Raid Precautions
c How to Keep the Peace

9 How Not to Fight Fascism [1935]
10 Bertrand Russell Applauds U.S. Neutrality Decision [1935]
11 Keep out of War! [1935]
12 The New Alliance [1935]
13 The Dangers of Bluff [1935]
14 How to Keep Peace [1935]
15 In Lands Where Slums and Wars Are Unknown [1935]
16 Some Psychological Difficulties of Pacifism in War-Time [1935]
17 Socialism and the Planned State (Fabian Society Lecture) [1935–36]
a Lecture Outline [1935]
b The Prospects of Great Britain: Plan or No Plan [1936]
c The Prospects of a Permanent Peace [1936]

18 Peace and the World [1936]

PART II. DIARIST FOR “THE NEW STATESMAN AND NATION”

19 A Weekly Diary (1) [1935]
20 A Weekly Diary (2) [1935]
21 A Weekly Diary (3) [1935]
22 A Weekly Diary (4) [1935]
23 A Weekly Diary (5) [1935]

PART III. IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS

24 Fear of Freedom [1935]
25 Why Be Afraid of Socialism? [1935]
26 The Case for Socialism [1935]
27 Why Radicals Are Apt to Be Unpopular [1936]
28 An Obituary of Liberalism [1936]
29 Dictatorships That Pass in the Night [1936]
30 Your Liberty Is in Danger [1936]
31 Blurb for Rudolf Rocker, Nationalism and Culture [1937]
32 Two Prophets [1937]
33 Power, Ancient and Modern [1937]
34 Political Democracy [1937]
35 The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed [1937]

PART IV. ON REASON, CRUELTY AND CONSCIENCE

36 The Causes of Happiness [1935]
37 Preface to In Praise of Idleness [1935]
38 Western Civilization [1935]
39 Intolerance, Past and Present [1935]
40 Individual and Social Morality [1935]
41 Do We Survive Death? [1936]
42 Greetings on Our Jubilee [1936]
43 Is Reason “Cold”? [1936]
44 The Established Church and the Report of the Archbishops’ Commission [1936]
45 Our Brave Impatient World! [1936]
46 Is Human Life Considered More Sacred Than Formerly? [1936]
47 Man Who Stuck Pins in His Wife [1936]
48 Auto-Obituary [1936]
49 Is Brutality Increasing? [1936]
50 On Violence in Thought and Feeling [1937?]
51 On Being Modern-minded [1937]
52 Law and Conscience [1937]
53 Anti-Semitism and Nazi Germany [1937–38]
a Answers to Questions [1937]
b The Persecution of the Jews [1938]

54 Byron and the Modern World [1938]
55 What Is Happiness? [1938]

PART V. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

56 Science Is Tottering [1935]
57 Storms and Tempests [1936]
58 Blurb for Lancelot Hogben, Mathematics for the Million [1936]
59 Reply to Mr. Gorer [1936]
60 Chemistry’s Power of Life and Death [1937]
61 The Fairly Modern Mind [1937]
62 War in the Heavens [1937]
63 Two Reviews of E.T. Bell, Men of Mathematics [1937]
a Lives of the Great Mathematicians (I)
b Lives of the Great Mathematicians (II)

64 “Whither Britain?” (Fabian Society Lecture) [1937]
 
a Lecture Outline
b Science and Social Institutions

PART VI. EDUCATIONAL THEORY AND PRACTICE

65 Academic and Professional Freedom [1935]
66 Lucy Martin Donnelly [1936]
67 The Future of State Education [1936]
68 Education for Democracy [1937]
69 Examinations [1937]
70 Education and Industry [1937]
71 Bringing up Parents (and Teachers) [1938]
72 What We Should Teach Our Children [1938]

PART VII. PARENTING, MARRIAGE AND SEX

73 The Break-up of the Home [1935?]
74 On Divorce [1935]
75 A Debate with G.K. Chesterton [1935]
a That Parents are Unfitted by Nature to Bring Up Their Own Children
b Who Should Bring Up Our Children?

76 On Equal Pay for Equal Work [1935]
77 The Amberley Papers: Origins and Authorship [1935–37]
a Lord and Lady Amberley [1935]
b The Amberley Papers (I) [1937]
c The Amberley Papers (II) [1937]

78 On Wife-Beating [1935]
79 Rational Sexual Ethics [1936]
80 Dangerous Passions [1936]
81 Life Begins at Two [1936]
82 Is the Family Still a Vital Part of Modern Life? [1937]
83 Review of Blum, Marriage [1937]
a Marriage Reform in France
b Blum on Marriage

84 My Son, at 15 Months, Knows 150 Words [1938]

PART VIII. PACIFISM VERSUS COLLECTIVE SECURITY

85 British Foreign Policy [1936]
86 Spain’s Civil War [1936]
87 A Turning-Point in Foreign Policy [1936]
88 Blurb for, and Review of, Freda Utley, Japan’s Feet of Clay [1936]
a Freda Utley, Japan’s Feet of Clay
b Far Eastern Imperialism

89 Critical Responses to Which Way to Peace? [1936–37]
a Logic of the Pacifist Case [1936]
b Which Way to Peace? (I) [1936]
c Which Way to Peace? (II) [1937]
d Pacifism or Collective Security? A Reply [1937]

90 The Paralysis of England [1936]
91 “No Continental Entanglements” [1936]
92 What 1937 Will Bring [1936]
93 Methodism and Armament Firms [1937]
94 Christianity and the Church [1937]
95 Collective “Security” [1937]
96 Russell’s Maiden Speech in the House of Lords [1937]
a Prepared Speech
b Foreign Affairs

97 Humanizing Warfare [1937]
98 A World of Fairy Tales [1937]
99 The Crisis in Foreign Policy [1938]
100 Has the League a Future? [1938]

APPENDIXES

Interviews

I Good Adults— Not Good Children [1935]
II What’s What in War; Steel, Says Russell [1935]
III War to Grip America, Says Savant Russell [1935]
IV An Interview with Bertrand Russell [1935]
V Peace and the Price to be Paid [1938]

Multiple-Signatory Texts

VI No Passport [1935]
VII Precautions for Air Raids [1935]
VIII The University Labour Federation [1935]
IX Mental Disorders [1935]
X British Institute of Philosophy [1935]
XI Foreword to What Was His Crime? The Case of Carl von Ossietzky [1936]
XII The L.C.C. and a Film [1937]
XIII Arts Peace Campaign [1938]

Miscellaneous Shorter Writings

XIV Notes for Three Articles [1937?]
XV Notes on War and Film [1938?]

Missing and Unprinted Papers
Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index



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