Bertrand Russell: His Works

Volume 29: Détente or Destruction, 1955–57

Edited by Andrew G. Bone
London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
Pages: lxxxiii, 718.
ISBN: 0-415-35837-X
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Abbreviations
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology

PART I. THE PROSPECT AND ILLUSION OF DÉTENTE

1 Failure of the Foreign Ministers' Conference at Geneva [1955]
2 The Dilemma of the West [1955]
3 Science and Human Life [1955]
4 Nuclear Weapons and World Peace [1956]
5 How to Avoid Nuclear Warfare [1956]
6 Prospects for the Next Half Century [1956]
7 Prospects of Disarmament [1956]
8 Statement for Polish Radio [1956]
9 Nuclear Weapons [1956]
10 British-Soviet Friendship [1955–57]

a Message for a Meeting at the Stoll Theatre [1955]
b British-Soviet Friendship [1956]
c Welcome to Bulganin and Khrushchev [1956]
d Britain and Russia: What Now? [1957]

PART II. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS

11 Faith without Illusion [1956]
12 Why I Am Not a Communist [1956]
13 My Recollections of George Trevelyan [1956]
14 Cranks [1956]
15 Do Human Beings Survive Death? [1957]
16 Books That Influenced Me in Youth [1957]

a The Importance of Shelley
b The Romance of Revolt
c Revolt in the Abstract
d Disgust and Its Antidote
e An Education in History
f The Pursuit of Truth
17 Some Changes in My Lifetime: Good and Bad [1957]
18 Gilbert Murray [1957]
19 Answers to Questions about Philosophy [1957]
a This Is My Philosophy
b Philosophy
20 Mr. Alan Wood [1957]
21 Reactions to Why I Am Not a Christian [1957]
a Christian Ethics (1)
b Christian Ethics (2)
c Why I Am Not a Christian (1)
d Why I Am Not a Christian (2)
e Earl Russell Replies

PART III. SUEZ AND HUNGARY

General Headnote
22 The Suez Canal [1956]
23 Britain's Act of War [1956]
24 This Act of Criminal Folly [1956]
25 British Opinion on Hungary [1956]
26 Message to the Indian Rationalist Association [1956]
27 The Atlantic Alliance [1956]
28 Message to The Hindustan Times [1956]
29 Message to Meeting on "Writers and the Hungarian Revolution" [1957]

PART IV. JUSTICE IN COLD WAR TIME

30 Bertrand Russell Urges Parole for Jacob Mindel [1955]
31 Two Papers on Oppenheimer [1955]

a Michael Wharton, A Nation's Security
b The Scientist in Society
32 Four Protests about the Sobell Case [1956]
a The Sobell Case
b The Case of Morton Sobell
c Morton Sobell
d Message to the Rosenberg–Sobell Committee Commemoration Meeting
33 Symptoms of George Orwell's 1984 [1956]
34 Foreword to Freedom Is as Freedom Does [1956]
35 An Open Letter to Mr. Norman Thomas [1957]
36 Justice or Injustice? [1957]
37 Anti-American Feeling in Britain [1957]

PART V. NINE "LONDON FORUM" RADIO DISCUSSIONS

General Headnote
38 Has the Left Been Right or Wrong? [1956]
39 The Importance of Nationality [1956]
40 The Role of Great Men in History [1956]
41 Is an Élite Necessary? [1956]
42 Is the Notion of Progress an Illusion? [1957]
43 The Immortality of the Soul [1957]
44 How Can We Achieve World Peace? [1957]
45 The Limits of Tolerance [1957]
46 Science and Survival

PART VI. "NATIONS, EMPIRES AND THE WORLD"

47 China, No Place for Tyrants [1955]
48 Letter to the Representative of IHUD [1955]
49 The Story of Colonization [1956]
50 Pros and Cons of Nationalism [1956]
51 Nations, Empires and the World [1957]
52 World Government [1957]
53 India, Pakistan and the Commonwealth [1957]
54 The Reasoning of Europeans [1957]

PART VII. THE NEXT STEP

55 Britain's Bomb [1957]

a Britain's Bomb (1)
b Britain's Bomb (2)
56 Should H-bomb Tests Be Continued? [1957]
57 Abstract and Script for a Radio Broadcast [1957]
a Next Step (Abstract)
b The Next Step in International Relations
58 Earl Russell and the H-bomb [1957]
59 Population Pressure [1957]
a Population Pressure and War
b Population Pressures and Family Planning
60 Three Protests against Nuclear Testing [1957]
a Message to Be Read at the Meeting on April 30, 1957, of the National Council for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests
b Letter from Bertrand Russell
c Statement for Meeting at Stanford University
61 Message to the First Pugwash Conference [1957]
62 The Future of International Politics [1957]
63 Britain and the H-bomb [1957]
64 Scientific Power: To What End? [1957]

APPENDIXES

INTERVIEWS

I. East–West Relations after the Geneva Conference [1955]
II. Talking to Bertrand Russell [1956]
III. An Interview with Bertrand Russell [1956]
IV. Frayed Temper May Endanger World [1956]
V. Lord Russell Says Russia Fears China Far More Than West [1957]
VI. Meeting with Russell [1957]
VII. Voice of the Sages [1957]

MULTIPLE-SIGNATORY TEXTS

VIII. Geneva: A Message to the Foreign Ministers [1955]
IX. Suez and World Government [1956]
X. Visiting Moscow [1957]
XI. Two Protests against the Hydrogen Bomb [1957]
XII. Hungarian Writers on Trial [1957]

MISCELLANEOUS TEXTS

XIII. Steps to World Government [1955]
XIV. China, geen oord voor tyrannen [1955]
XV. Eight Blurbs [1955–57]
XVI. Excerpts from Five Brains Trusts [1956–57]

Missing and Unprinted Papers
Annotation
Textual Notes
Bibliographical Index
General Index

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