Edward Hallett Carr – författare

In Volume I, E. H. Carr begins with an analysis of the events in Russian history from 1898 to 1917 that shaped the course of the Revolution. He examines the constitutional structure erected by the new government and then turns to the multifarious problems facing the Bolsheviks as they took possession of a rapidly disintegrating Russian empire.

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.

In Volume III, Russia’s geographical position as both a European and an Asian power and her twin aims of promoting world revolution and establishing normal relations with capitalist governments led to severe stresses in Soviet foreign policy. This volume analyzes these strains and their domestic and international ramifications.

This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of essays on the ideological origins of the European revolutionary movement. The first essay in the collection is devoted to Saint-Simon who, though not a revolutionary in the ordinary sense, was the begetter of the many ideas which became stock-in-trade of the nineteenth century revolutionaries. The essays that follow are on Marx and the Communist Manifesto, Proudhon, Herzen, Lassalle and Sorel; on the foundation and early history of the Russian Communist Party; on the histories of the British and German Communist Parties; and on Lenin and Stalin.

This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of essays on the ideological origins of the European revolutionary movement. The first essay in the collection is devoted to Saint-Simon who, though not a revolutionary in the ordinary sense, was the begetter of the many ideas which became stock-in-trade of the nineteenth century revolutionaries. The essays that follow are on Marx and the Communist Manifesto, Proudhon, Herzen, Lassalle and Sorel; on the foundation and early history of the Russian Communist Party; on the histories of the British and German Communist Parties; and on Lenin and Stalin.

Denna bok, fjärde volymen av Carrs allmänt erkända standardverk om Sovjets historia. Boken behandlar en kort med mycket viktig period i Sovjets tidiga historia, en period som haft avgörande betydelse för landets fortsatta utveckling. Den berömda saxkrisen visar allvarliga ekonomiska problem i de livsviktiga relationerna mellan stad och landsbygd, mellan industri och jordbruk. Partiets byråkratisering och den bristande partidemokratin väcker allt fler protester ocg än en gång bildas en opposition mot den officiella partilinjen. I Tyskland misslyckas den socialistiska revolution som bolsjevikerna räknat med. Sakta men säkert kommer insikten att Sovjet för överskådlig tid måste inrikta sig på att klara sig som ensam arbetarstat. I mars 1923 drabbas Lenin av ett slaganfall, och han avlider i januari 1924. Lenins frånvaro och hoppet om att han ska kunna återhämta sig bidrar starkt till att perioden präglas av avvaktan. Många lösningar skjuts på framtiden och det blir allt klara att de häftiga partistriderna också gäller vilka som i framtiden ska leda partiet. Boekn är oumbärlig läsning för alla som vill skaffa sig en djupare förståelse av de historiska villkor och politiska strider som skapat dagens Sovjetunionen.