CARR, E(DWARD) H(ALLETT)

born June 28, 1892, London died Nov. 3, 1982, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng. British political scientist and historian specializing in modern Russian history. He joined the Foreign Office in 1916 and was assistant editor of The Times during 194146. He was subsequently tutor and fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His best known works include the biography Michael Bakunin (1937) and the multivolume, four-part series A History of Soviet Russia, which includes The Bolshevik Revolution 191723 (vol. 1, 1950; vol. 2, 1952; vol. 3, 1953), The Interregnum 192324 (vol. 4, 1954), Socialism in One Country 192426 (vol. 5, 1958; vol. 6, 1959; vol. 7, 1964), and The Foundations of a Planned Economy, 192629 (vol. 8, with R.W. Davies, 1969, vol. 9, 1971, vol. 10, 197678). He also wrote The New Society (1951), What Is History? (1961), 1917: Before and After (1968), and From Napoleon to Stalin (essays, 1980).