E. H. Carr

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Edward Hallett Carr (28 June 1892 – 3 November 1982) was a British historian, journalist and international relations theorist, and fierce opponent of empiricism within historiography.

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[edit] Biography

Carr was born in London to a middle-class family, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School in London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a First Class Degree in Classics. From 1916 to 1936 he served in the British Foreign Office and was part of the British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference. Later he became an adviser on League of Nations affairs. After being assigned to Riga, Latvia in the 1920s Carr became increasingly fascinated with Russian literature and culture and wrote several works on various aspects of Russian life. Between 1931 and 1937, Carr published many works on historians and history, works that gave much fledgling discipline of international relations. After the war, Carr was a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and then Trinity College, where he published most of his popular works “A History of Soviet Union” and “What is History?”. He remained at Trinity College until his death.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Dostoevsky (1821-1881): a New Biography, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1931.
  • The Romantic Exiles: a Nineteenth Century Portrait Gallery, London: Victor Gollancz, 1933 and was also published in paperback by Penguin in 1949 and again in 1968.
  • Karl Marx: a Study in Fanaticism, London: Dent, 1934.
  • Michael Bakunin, London: Macmillan, 1937.
  • The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939: an Introduction to the Study of International Relations, London: Macmillan, 1939, revised edition, 1946.
  • Conditions of Peace, London: Macmillan, 1942.
  • Nationalism and After, London: Macmillan, 1945.
  • A History of Soviet Russia, Collection of 14 volumes, London: Macmillan, 1950-1978. The first three titles being Bolshevik Revolution, The Interregnum and Socialism In One County.
  • The New Society, London: Macmillan, 1951
  • What is History?, 1961, revised edition edited by R.W. Davies, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.
  • 1917 Before and After, London: Macmillan, 1969; American edition: The October Revolution Before and After, New York: Knopf, 1969.
  • The Russian Revolution: From Lenin to Stalin (1917-1929), London: Macmillan, 1979.
  • From Napoleon to Stalin and Other Essays, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980.
  • The Twilight of the Comintern, 1930-1935, London: Macmillan, 1982.
  • The Soviet Impact on the Western World (1946)

[edit] References

  • Abramsky, Chimen & Williams, Beryl J. (editors) Essays In Honour of E.H. Carr, London: Macmillan, 1974.
  • Cox, Michael, ed., E.H. Carr: a critical appraisal, London: Palgrave, 2000
  • Davies, Robert William "Edward Hallett Carr, 1892-1982" pages 473-511 from Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 69, 1983.
  • Deutscher, Tamara "E.H. Carr-a Personal Memoir" pages 78-86 from New Left Review, Issue #137, 1983.
  • Haslam, Jonathan "We Need a Faith: E.H. Carr, 1892-1982" pages 36-39 from History Today, Volume 33, August 1983.
  • Haslam, Jonathan "E.H. Carr and the History of Soviet Russia" pages 1021-1027 from Historical Journal, Volume 26, Issue #4, 1983.
  • Howe, Paul "The Utopian Realism of E.H. Carr" pages 277-297 from Review of International Studies, Volume 20, Issue #3, 1994.
  • Labedz, Leopold "E.H. Carr: A Historian Overtaken by History" pages 94-111 from Survey March 1988 Volume 30 Issue # 1/2.
  • Oldfield, A. "Moral Judgments in History" pages 260-277 from History and Theory, Volume 20, Issue #3, 1981.
  • Trevor-Roper, Hugh "E.H. Carr's Success Story" pages 69-77 from Encounter, Volume 84, Issue #104, 1962.

[edit] External links

The Papers of E. H. Carr are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections