Carr, E. H

New York. 1969. April 1969. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 179 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Irving Bogen. keywords: History Russia Russian Revolution Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The distinguished Cambridge University historian, E. H. Carr, is perhaps the English-speaking world's leading scholar in the field of twentieth-century Russian history, which has been the main focus of his researches and thinking since 1950 when he began his celebrated multi-volume A HISTORY OF SOVIET RUSSIA. In THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION he summarizes the meaning of the Soviet experience. ‘My concern,' he writes in an introduction to these eleven essays, ‘is not so much with the ten days that shook the world as with the world-shaking process of which they were the expressions and sometimes the starting point.' In this context he brings his cool, critical judgment and felicitous style to bear on such subjects as the structure of Soviet society, collectivization, the revolution as Utopia, the revolution from above, the unfinished revolution, trade unions, the tragedy of Trotsky, and the socialist critics of Soviet policy, among them Rosa Luxemburg and Isaac Deutscher. Noting that the study of revolution automatically raises the issues of continuity and change in history - and that no change, however radical, wholly breaks historical continuity - Professor Carr here concerns himself with the changes and developments within the revolution, and the worldwide effects of the Russian Revolution, rather than with the elements of continuity which, in the full context of Russian history, the Soviet experience displays. His book illumines the essential questions raised by the political and social upheavals of the October Revolution. inventory #19541