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He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School in London , and Trinity College , Cambridge . He joined the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (diplomatic service) in 1916 , resigning in 1936 . He became the Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University Of Wales Aberystwyth , and is particularly known for his contribution on International Relations Theory . His famous work, '' The Twenty Years' Crisis '' was published in 1939 . He later served as assistant editor of '' The Times '' from 1941 to 1946 . He was a tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford from 1953 to 1955 when he became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Carr's writings include biographies of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1931), Karl Marx (1934), and Mikhail Bakunin (1937), as well as important studies on international relations and his ''History of Soviet Russia'' (14 vol., 1950–78). Carr is most famous today for his examination of Historiography , '' What Is History? '' (1961).


REFERENCE

  • Labedz, Leopold "E.H. Carr: A Historian Overtaken by History" pages 94-111 from ''Survey'' March 1988 Volume 30 Issue # 1/2.



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The Papers of E H Carr are held at the University Of Birmingham Special Collections