The only surviving child of a Jewish couple, Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was born in Riga, then capital of Livonia, part of the Russian Empire. When he was six the family moved to Petrograd (St. Petersburg) where he saw the Russian Revolution up close. The family moved to Britain in 1921. His first book was Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (1939). He made a career as philosopher and intellectual historian, at Oxford, yet was active and influential within the central zone of British cultural and governmental elites. As thinker and scholar, his manner was oratory and conversational; his books, such as Liberty (2002), mostly appeared late in his life and after his death, most edited by Henry Hardy, collecting the vast store of Berlin’s essays, addresses, and lectures (Dr Hardy assisted with the selections reprinted in Econ Journal Watch). Resources are available at Isaiah Berlin Online and The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library.