Product Description: E.H. Carr is the acknowledged authority on Soviet Russia. In The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin 1917 - 1929 , he provides the student and general reader alike with insights and knowledge of a lifetime's work. This book, now available in a brand new edition, is, without doubt, the standard short history of the Russian Revolution and now contains a new introduction by R...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These essays now reprinted and prefaced by Jonathan Haslam, E.H. Carr's biographer, give the reader a representative sample of Carr's interests over several decades. They include fascinating picture portraits of figures, both major and minor, from the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-centuries, some of whom he knew at first hand...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: E.H. Carr's Twenty Years' Crisis is a classic work in International Relations. Published in 1939, on the eve of World War II, it was immediately recognized by friend and foe alike as a defining work in the fledgling discipline. The author was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century...read more

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Product Description: Book by Carr, Edward Hallett

Product Description: 1847: the Russian liberal Alexander Herzen and his family leave Moscow on a short-term permit, become embroiled in the revolutionary upheavals in France and Italy and find themselves condemned to permanent exile. Their lives are punctuated by romance and illusion, intrigue and adultery...read more

Product Description: This text is a study of the period between the two World Wars. Written on the eve of World War II, it deals with war and peace and the conduct of international affairs. Its framework was topical - illustrations were drawn from the events of the day...read more

“Every historian, every economist, every Bolshevik even, owes Mr. Carr a debt of gratitude too deep to be formulated.” ―A.J.P. Taylor The second volume discusses the regime’s economic policies; the civil war and the subsequent series of radical measures known as “war communism”; the revolt of the peasants; and the catastrophic decline of industry that forced Lenin to institute the New Economic Policy (NEP). The course of NEP is traced down the price crisis of 1923 and the first tentative steps toward planning.

Product Description: First published in 1933, The Romantic Exiles is a unique and spirited biography of Alexander Herzen (1812–1868), a self-exiled Russian aristocrat who was the leader of a small group of revolutionary-minded expatriates. Their story is the record of the inevitable and disastrous linkage of political and emotional liberalism in the two decades following the Romantic rebellion of the 1830's; and it is the story of the destruction of their ideals and achievements (political and personal) due to shifting ideologies and the passage of time...read more

Chronicles the major events of the Bolshevik Revolution from the fall of the Romanovs in 1917 to the adoption of the first Five-Year Plan in 1928, and reviews the reforms that dramatically reshaped Russian society.

Product Description: Volume 3 deals with Soviet foreign relations from 1926 to 1929. Part 1 covers Soviet diplomatic relations with the major capitalist countries, and the procedures of the Communist International.

A philosophical interpretation of history, examining the significance of historical study as a science and a reflection of social values