- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Verso Books (6 July 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1859847331
- ISBN-13: 978-1859847336
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,008,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Edwar Hallet Carr is renowned as the historian of Soviet Russia. This biography reveals how his grasp of statecraft is related to his own formative experiences at the centre of political events.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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E.H.Carr burst into the consciousness of every schoolboy in England studying History at 'A' level in 1961, when he published a series of lectures entitled 'What is History?' It was virtually a set book. No-one could contemplate an interview at a University without having read it, and possibly memorised it.
We found out later that he was not the only person to have written about the philosophy of history, and about historiography; and personally, I found that his much-praised 'Bolshevik Revolution' was (a) difficult to read and (b) overrated.
This book shows how far we were misled. The colossus was a man of straw: one of those brilliant scholars whose main aim in life was to be controversial, rather than illuminate. In the 1930s, he was an appeaser. In the 1950s he was effectively a propagandist for Communism. Nobody exposed him at the time; but nothing he wrote has lasting value. The author of this biography plays this down, as the title shows; but in my view he demonstrates the Vices without proving his case about the Integrity.
But it's a splendid read for anyone who ever read 'What is History?' and failed to understand what Carr was really driving at - that the Soviet Union was bound to win the Cold War. Carr died before the collapse of the USSR, which was just as well for him.
Stephen Cooper
We found out later that he was not the only person to have written about the philosophy of history, and about historiography; and personally, I found that his much-praised 'Bolshevik Revolution' was (a) difficult to read and (b) overrated.
This book shows how far we were misled. The colossus was a man of straw: one of those brilliant scholars whose main aim in life was to be controversial, rather than illuminate. In the 1930s, he was an appeaser. In the 1950s he was effectively a propagandist for Communism. Nobody exposed him at the time; but nothing he wrote has lasting value. The author of this biography plays this down, as the title shows; but in my view he demonstrates the Vices without proving his case about the Integrity.
But it's a splendid read for anyone who ever read 'What is History?' and failed to understand what Carr was really driving at - that the Soviet Union was bound to win the Cold War. Carr died before the collapse of the USSR, which was just as well for him.
Stephen Cooper
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7 Feb 2002
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
STRONG ON VICES, WEAK ON INTEGRITY
8 Nov 2011
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E.H.Carr burst into the consciousness of every schoolboy in England studying History at 'A' level in 1961, when he published a series of lectures entitled 'What is History?' It was virtually a set book. No-one could contemplate an interview at a University without having read it, and possibly memorised it.
We found out later that he was not the only person to have written about the philosophy of history, and about historiography; and personally, I found that his much-praised 'Bolshevik Revolution' was (a) difficult to read and (b) overrated.
This book shows how far we were misled. The colossus was a man of straw: one of those brilliant scholars whose main aim in life was to be controversial, rather than illuminate. In the 1930s, he was an appeaser. In the 1950s he was effectively a propagandist for Communism. Nobody exposed him at the time; but nothing he wrote has lasting value. The author of this biography plays this down, as the title shows; but in my view he demonstrates the Vices without proving his case about the Integrity.
But it's a splendid read for anyone who ever read 'What is History?' and failed to understand what Carr was really driving at - that the Soviet Union was bound to win the Cold War. Carr died before the collapse of the USSR, which was just as well for him.
Stephen Cooper
We found out later that he was not the only person to have written about the philosophy of history, and about historiography; and personally, I found that his much-praised 'Bolshevik Revolution' was (a) difficult to read and (b) overrated.
This book shows how far we were misled. The colossus was a man of straw: one of those brilliant scholars whose main aim in life was to be controversial, rather than illuminate. In the 1930s, he was an appeaser. In the 1950s he was effectively a propagandist for Communism. Nobody exposed him at the time; but nothing he wrote has lasting value. The author of this biography plays this down, as the title shows; but in my view he demonstrates the Vices without proving his case about the Integrity.
But it's a splendid read for anyone who ever read 'What is History?' and failed to understand what Carr was really driving at - that the Soviet Union was bound to win the Cold War. Carr died before the collapse of the USSR, which was just as well for him.
Stephen Cooper
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
One of the best!
2 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback
Very few biographies do exist about Ed. Carr. This biography by Haslam is definitely the best. Haslam himself being a student of Carr could not have made a better tribute to his and many other 'realists' teacher.
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