Edward
Hallett Carr was born in 1892. He studied Classics at Cambridge
University and during the First World War
was recruited by the British Foreign Office.
In
1939 Carr published The Twenty Year Crisis.
In this book he argued that Neville
Chamberlain was
right to adopt a policy of appeasement.
Soon after the book was published the German
Army invaded Poland. Despite his perceived
pro-Nazi views, Carr was recruited by The
Times.
During
the Second World War Carr gradually changed
his views and by 1944 took a strong pro-Soviet position. After the
war he left the newspaper and joined the staff at Trinity
College, Cambridge. He also began
writing the 14 volume A History of the Soviet
Union. His most popular work, What
is History?, appeared in 1961.
Edward
Hallett Carr died of cancer on 5th November, 1982.
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E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years' Crisis (1939)
Having demolished the current utopia with the weapons of realism,
we still need to build a new utopia of our own, which will one day
fall to the same weapons. The human will will continue to seek escape
from the logical consequences of realism in the vision of an international
order which, as soon as it crystallizes itself into concrete political
form, becomes tainted with self-interest and hypocrisy, and once more
be attacked with the instruments of realism.
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