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Edward Hallett Carr

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born

June 28, 1892 in London, The United Kingdom

died

November 03, 1982

gender

male

genre

History, Politics

influences

Karl Marx, Karl Mannheim

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E. H. Carr was a liberal realist and later left-wing British historian, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography.

Carr was best known for his 14-volume history of the Soviet Union, in which he provided an account of Soviet history from 1917 to 1929, for his writings on international relations, and for his book What Is History?, in which he laid out historiographical principles rejecting traditional historical methods and practices.

Educated at Cambridge, Carr began his career as a diplomat in 1916. Becoming increasingly preoccupied with the study of international relations and of the Soviet Union, he resigned from the Foreign Office in 1936 to begin an academic career. From 1941 to 1...more

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Books by Edward Hallett Carr

Average rating: 3.74 · 592 ratings · 54 reviews · 43 distinct works

	What Is History? 3.68 avg rating — 405 ratings — published 1961 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-1939 3.97 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1964 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Bolshevik Revolution: 1917-1923, Volume 3 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin 1917-1929 by Edward Hallett Carr, Robert W. Davies, R. W. Davies 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Romantic Exiles 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1949 — 8 editions	My rating:
	داستایفسکی جدال شک و ایمان by Edward Hallett Carr, خشایار دیهیمی (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1931 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923, Volume 2 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Sei lezioni sulla storia 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923, Volume 1 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War by Edward Hallett Carr, Tamara Deutscher (Editor) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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Series by Edward Hallett Carr

A History of Soviet Russia (8 books)
by Edward Hallett Carr, Robert W. Davies, R. W. Davies

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Quotes by Edward Hallett Carr

“History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.”
― Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?

tags: environment , historiography , history , self-discovery , struggle

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“Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.”
― Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?

tags: historian , history

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“Aprender acerca del presente a la luz del pasado quiere también decir aprender del pasado a la luz del presente. La función de la historia es la de estimular una mas profunda comprensión tanto del pasado como del presente por su comparación recíproca.”
― Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?

tags: historia , historiografía , historiography , history , mankind , past , present , society

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