“Socialism cannot be obtained through reformism, i.e. through the machinery of bourgeois democracy”
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E. H. Carr
Edward Hallett Carr was a British English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography. Carr was best known for A History of Soviet Russia, a 14-volume history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1929, for his writings on international relations, particularly The Twenty Years' Crisis, and for his book What Is History? in whi…
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culture · British diplomat, historian, and writer (1892–1982) · historian · journalist · diplomat · writer · political scientist · professor · politician · also E. H. Carr, E.H. Carr, Edward Hallett Carr, Edward H. Carr, Ted Carr, Carr
Born 28 June 1892 · Died 3 November 1982 · Q274764
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2026· 4 entries
“liberalism is professed and to some extent practised, millions of people would die without American charity. In China, where liberalism is rejected, people somehow get fed. Which is the more cruel and oppressive regime?”
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“s human rights record. Because of Carr”
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“a division of the Great Powers into two armored camps”
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2024· 1 entry
Published “Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” in The Lancet — cited 4,583 times.
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2021· 1 entry
Published “Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK” in The Lancet — cited 4,168 times.
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2020· 1 entry
Published “The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises” in Pain — cited 4,344 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,678 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines” in Science — cited 3,948 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY” in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series — cited 4,693 times.
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2006· 1 entry
Published “The Connectivity Map: Using Gene-Expression Signatures to Connect Small Molecules, Genes, and Disease” in Science — cited 4,644 times.
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2005· 1 entry
Published “Core outcome measures for chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations” in Pain — cited 3,340 times.
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2000· 1 entry
Published “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary” in The Astronomical Journal — cited 8,939 times.
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1998· 2 entries
Published “Questionnaire on the perceptions of patients about total knee replacement” in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume — cited 3,803 times.
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Published “Orexins and Orexin Receptors: A Family of Hypothalamic Neuropeptides and G Protein-Coupled Receptors that Regulate Feeding Behavior” in Cell — cited 4,601 times.
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1984· 1 entry
Was The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War
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1982· 1 entry
Died 1982-11-03.
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1978· 1 entry
That "a lot of people, as well as the Japanese, are going to benefit from the opening up of trade with China
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1970· 1 entry
Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1966· 1 entry
Carr left Forde and married the historian Betty Behrens
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1961· 1 entry
Carr published an anonymous and very favourable review of his friend A
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1956· 1 entry
Carr did not comment on the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Uprising, while at the same time condemning the Suez War
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1955· 1 entry
A major scandal that damaged Carr's reputation as a historian of the Soviet Union occurred when he wrote the introduction to Notes for a Journal, the supposed memoir of the former Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov
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1954· 2 entries
To his friend Isaac Deutscher, Carr described his attitude to Poland at the time: "The picture of Poland that was universal in Eastern Europe right down to 1925 was of a strong and potentially predatory power
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Published “Effects of Diffusion on Free Precession in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Experiments” in Physical Review — cited 5,687 times.
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1950· 1 entry
1952, and 1953, and traced Soviet history from 1917 to 1922
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1948· 1 entry
Carr condemned the British acceptance of an American loan in 1946 as marking the effective end of British independence
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1947· 1 entry
Carr was forced to resign from his position at Aberystwyth
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1946· 3 entries
Carr started living with Joyce Marion Stock Forde, who was to remain his common law wife until 1964
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“The trend away from individualism and towards totalitarianism is everywhere unmistakable”
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Carr argued that "The trend away from individualism and towards totalitarianism is everywhere unmistakable", that Marxism was the by far the most successful type of totalitarianism as proved by Soviet industrial growth a
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1942· 1 entry
Carr published Conditions of Peace, followed by Nationalism and After in 1945, in which he outlined his ideas about how the post-war world should look
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1941· 1 entry
And the Soviet victory of 1945, but died before he could complete the project
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1937· 1 entry
Carr visited the Soviet Union for a second time, and was impressed by what he saw
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1936· 4 entries
“The methods of the Tudor sovereigns, when they were making the English nation, invite many comparisons with those of the Nazi regime in Germany”
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Launched a major campaign in 1943 to have Carr fired, being particularly upset that, although Carr had not taught since 1939, he was still drawing his professor's salary
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Carr began to work for Chatham House, where he chaired a study group tasked with producing a report on nationalism
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Carr became the Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and is particularly known for his contribution on international relations theory
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1929· 1 entry
Carr began to review books relating to all things Russian and Soviet and to international relations in several British literary journals and, towards the end of his life, in the London Review of Books
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1927· 1 entry
Carr paid his first visit to Moscow
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1925· 1 entry
Carr married Anne Ward Howe, by whom he had one son
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1924· 1 entry
With the intention of increasing public support for his beloved League, which helps to explain his chagrin at Carr's anti-League lectures
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1919· 1 entry
Carr was part of the British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference and was involved in the drafting of parts of the Treaty of Versailles relating to the League of Nations
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1917· 1 entry
Was assigned to the Northern Department, which amongst other areas dealt with relations with Russia
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1916· 1 entry
And in 1919 he participated in the Paris Peace Conference as a member of the British delegation
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1911· 1 entry
Carr won the Craven Scholarship to attend Trinity College at Cambridge
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-06-28.
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