From Napoleon to Stalin and Other Essays

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. The reader will also find studied reflection on the major events and their impact including the Paris peace settlement of 1919 and the legacy of Stalin in Russian history. Carr is always lucid, with a taste for controversy. Novices, fans and critics alike will not be disappointed.

'...I rejoice to hail E.H.Carr as the greatest historian of our age.' - A.J.P. Taylor, Observer '...In this volume, Mr Carr...has gathered together a selection of essays and book reviews writtenover the past thirty years. It is astonishing how well they withstand reprinting and the passage of time...Mr Carr has an uncanny knack for reaching to the very heart of a situation or an individual and using this central point from which to display in the round a man or his times or a historical or political theme.' - Lionel Kochan, British Book News '...Every item in this collection displays the virtues which the readers have come to expect from Mr Carr - clarity of expression, a wide range of detailed knowledge and a kind of intellectual tough-mindedness.' - M.S. Anderson, Times Higher Education Supplement

E.H. CARR who died in 1982 at the age of ninety was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, UK. His books include International Relations between the Two World Wars 1919-1939, The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-1939, Nationalism and After, The New Society, What is History?, 1917: Before and After, Michael Bakunin, The Russian Revolution From Lenin to Stalin 1917-1929, the fourteen volume History of Soviet Russia and The Twilight of the Comintern 1930-1935.JONATHAN HASLAM is Reader in History of International Relations at Cambridge University, UK. His previous publications include The Soviet Union and the Threat from the East, 1933-41 (1992), The Vices of Integrity: E.H. Carr, 1892-1982 (1999) and No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations Since Machiavelli (2002)