Volumes of The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell


Volume 27: Culture and the Cold War, 1952–53

Edited by Andrew G. Bone
IN PROGRESS



Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. RUSSELL AT EIGHTY

1 Advice to Those Who Want to Attain Eighty [1952]
2 Meanderings of an Octogenarian [1952]
3 Reflections on My Eightieth Birthday [1952]

4 NBC Television Interview [1952]
a Adaptation: An Autobiographical Epitome [1952]
b Eighty Years of Changing Beliefs and Unchanging Hopes [1952]

5 An Octogenarian’s Retrospect and Prospect [1952]

PART II. PORTRAITS FROM MEMORY AND OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS

6 J.M. Keynes and Lytton Strachey [1952]
7 D.H. Lawrence [1952]
8 Sydney and Beatrice Webb [1952]
9 Some Cambridge Dons of the ’Nineties [1953]
10 Some of My Contemporaries at Cambridge [1953]
11 George Bernard Shaw [1953]
12 H.G. Wells [1953]
13 Joseph Conrad [1953]
14 Portraits From Memory—III [1952]
15 Max Beerbohm [1952]
16 Lord John Russell
17 Mahatma Gandhi [1952]
18 Sir Arthur Eddington [1953]

PART III. FICTION AND OTHER CREATIVE WRITING

19 Fiction [1953]
20 “G” Is for Gobbledegook [1953]
21 The Good Citizen’s Alphabet [1953]
22 1953 in Retrospect [1953]
23 The Prelate and the Commissar [1953]
24 Mr. Bowdler’s Family Bliss [1953]
25 Preface to Professor Mmaa’s Lecture [1953]

PART IV. BBC RADIO DISCUSSIONS AND INTERVIEWS

26 Academic Freedom in America and Britain [1952]
27 Press Conference [1952]
28 Europe and Asia and the Modern World [1952]
29 Personal Call [1953]
30 The Experience of Age [1952]
31 The Turn of the Year—Predicaments of Philosophy, Science and Art [1952]
32 [Interview on Short Stories] [1953]
33 Is Tyranny Self-Destructive? [1953]
34 Is There a Pattern in History? [1953]
35 The Nature of Liberal Civilization [1953]

PART V. EDUCATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT

36 Why Americans are Unhappy [1952]
37 [Goodwill Message] [1952]
38 Progressive Education [1952]
39 Possibilities of Happiness [1952]
40 Blurb for Robert Lindner, Prescription for Rebellion
41 Educational Prospects [1953]
42 Generation X [1953]
43 Education for a Difficult World [1953]
44 Are the World’s Troubles Due to Decay of Faith? [1953]

  45 The Kinsey Report on Women [1953]
46 The World I Should Like to Live In [1953]

PART VI. FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP: A CRITICAL DEFENCE OF THE WEST

47 What Is Freedom? [1952]
48 Western Freedom [1953]
49 A Historian’s Political Philosophy [1953]
50 Preface to The Evidence of Dr. Marie C. Stopes to the Royal Commission on the Press [1953]
51 World without Persecution [1953]
52 Obeying Law in Testifying [1953]
53 Ideologies and Power Politics [1953]
54 Voice of Freedom [1953]
55 Can Totalitarian Régimes be Stable? [1953]
56 What Is Democracy? [1953]

PART VII. THE DEATH OF STALIN AND OTHER COLD WAR CONCERNS

57 Blurb for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [1952]
58 Three Essentials for a Stable World [1952]
59 Britain Can Lead Europe to Equality with America [1952]
60 The End of a Revolution [1952]
61 If There is War War Wins It [1952]
62 Broadcast to India [1953]
63 Stalin’s Legacy [1953]
64 A New Russian Policy? [1953]
65 American Visas for Europeans [1953]
66 The Greatest Present Service to Mankind [1953]
67 British Guiana [1953]
a British Guiana (I)
b British Guiana (II)

68 Bertrand Russell and “Preventive War” [1953]
69 Spot Letter from Earl Russell, OM [1953]

APPENDIXES

Interviews

I U.S. Politicos Trod Primrose Path, Says Earl [1952]
II The Wise Old Man Tells the World [1952]
III At Eighty—a Highly Respected Rebel [1952]
IV If I Were You Young Man [1952]
V Russell Sees Workless, Hateless World [1952]
VI Tribute to a Great Man [1952]
VII The Lyons Den [1952]
VIII [Writing Short Stories] [1952]
IX [New Hope for Our World] [1953]
X No Pills for Pep! [1953]

Multiple-Signatory Texts

XI Religious Broadcasting [1952]
XII Napalm Bombs [1952]
XIII Racial Discrimination [1952]
XIV Homosexuality Laws [1952]
XV After the Prague Executions [1953]
XVI Sentence on an African [1953]
XVII Plea to N.A.T.O. Leaders [1953]

Miscellaneous Texts

XVIII Excerpts from a Brains Trust
XIX [Writing Fiction] [1953]
XX Bertrand Russell’s Address [1953]

Missing and Unprinted Papers
Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index



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