He has caused distress to the family. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. Carr in fact described Stalin’s victory over his opponents as ‘the triumph not of reason but of organisation’, (Socialism in One Country, Vol. He also knew, met and corresponded with many of the émigrés he is accused of ignoring. The fact is that an impeccable Soviet source printed, in 1964, the results of an Army survey which showed that there were more men in the Army in 1917 than at any previous point in the war.5 Most Russian soldiers proved to be as patriotic as soldiers of other countries at this time. In 1955, Carr was rescued by his old college, Trinity, at Cambridge. Then again, it is simply dishonest to end a history of the Soviet Union in 1929. He strained very hard to show them essentially as employers of hired labour (‘though even he had to admit’ that little labour was employed). John H. Carr. When Carr was undertaking the bulk of his work, facilities for such research were closed to foreign scholars. For Carr very greatly wanted to be loved, and he much preferred women’s company to men’s, although he treated his women so badly. His attitude on the nationalities question can almost be described as one of hatred. Carr was not a good teacher. He “will be remembered as perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain,” the novelist Ian McEwan said. She was the wife of the late Roger Carr. Read more. On the contrary, in his leader on ‘Britain and Hitler’ in the Times on 22 July 1940, Carr denounced Hitler’s ‘bankruptcy’, declared that ‘Britain epitomises everything that degenerate Nazism fears and hates,’ and concluded that ‘two visions of the future are offered to the world. How Stone has the nerve to call Carr ‘mean’ and ‘cruel’, given the sustained nastiness of his polemic, is not the least remarkable thing about this unseemly affair. Curtis Lee Carr, 39, of Glendale, WV, departed this life on December 25, 2020, at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Parkersburg, WV. George was born in Vineland, raised in Estell Manor and had resided in Millville and Marmora before returning to Maurice River Township. He could handle many languages, and his training as a Classical scholar gave him a capacity for careful drafting and textual criticism. He was born June 20, 1970 to George H. Carr Jr. and Lois Carr (Thorne). He used the word kulak to mean ‘big farmer’, although the word originally meant ‘usurer’ – a different idea altogether. Carr was what the trade calls “an agent of influence,” promoting the party line either of his own free will or perhaps prompted by the Soviet officials with whom he was in touch in London and Moscow and elsewhere. His Celebration of Life Service will be held Saturday, August 1, 2020 at Redeeming Faith Church of God in Christ, There is a great deal more to say if Carr’s achievement is to be properly appreciated, and if the motivations of his detractors are to be properly laid bare. Pp. The interview is reprinted in his volume of essays, Leopold Labedz’s ‘Deutscher as Historian and Prophet’ appeared in. For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions. But Carr summarises the decree of 1906 (loc.cit.) There are two big surprises about the obituary of Norman Stone by Sir Richard Evans, the former Regius Professor of History at Cambridge, in the Guardian.First, how nasty it is. Our mother suffered from cancer which was cured ten years before the marriage broke up. He unearthed some minutes, written by Carr as a junior official in the Foreign Office, which spoke quite warmly of the White cause. Before 1914, there were already stories, such as E.M. Forster’s ‘The machine stops’, which, by way of warning, talked the language of Brave New World. As to the rest, it was always easy for Carr, like Deutscher, to put in a sentence or two to say that Stalin was terrible. I sense some kind of obscure symbolism at work. The Master of Balliol, the stern Calvinist Lindsay Keir, disliked everything about Carr – his affairs, his politics, his past, his present, even his dress (he used to pad about the college in sand-shoes). For a professional historian Stone is amazingly ready to write of Carr from hearsay: his phrase ‘he was also, it is said, very mean’ is echoed throughout the article by ‘it would appear’, ‘it is said’, ‘apparently’, ‘perhaps’, ‘he seems’ and, a third time, ‘it is said’. 3. He talks of ‘the oddly distorted amalgam of bourgeois and socialist revolutions’, and remarks that ‘what inspired, and constantly tarnished, the [industrial] achievement was the illusory proletarian revolution.’ His book is really to be seen as a study of how Great Power is made out of revolutionary origins: it was this, more than anything else, that interested him. For the moment, however, we find two things particularly important. He firmly ignored all oral evidence, and he never went to talk to anyone in Moscow who might have helped him to understand the Soviet Union. It is also true that the History’s view of socialist construction is mainly an administrative one, though one which is carefully informed by a detailed grasp of socioeconomic determinations. Did Trotsky offer an alternative to Stalinism, or was it the same story told by a different man? 1939 - 2018. ‘Very mean’? John le Carré, who has died aged 89, was one of the most successful post-war English novelists, and perhaps the finest thriller writer of the 20th century. Stone’s hostility to Carr has utterly warped his judgment. Although he could read Ukrainian, he has nothing of interest to say about the Ukraine and shows a certain ignorance of it. By the time he died, the 15th separate book of this History – The Twilight of the Comintern – was just about to appear, and in his papers there is the larger part of a manuscript for the 16th volume. E. H. CARR AND THE HISTORY OF SOVIET RUSSIA The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin igiy-ig2g. And instead of needing to advance his ‘own’ hypothesis that this ‘reflected a struggle that had been going on in local parties, in which “mini-Stalins" (Medvedev’s phrase) were emerging’, he would have discovered that Carr, a quarter of a century earlier, had demonstrated how ‘the drift towards personal dictatorship, the greater prestige and influence of the individual leader … first emerged in local organisations’ (ibid, p. 224). By 1929, the considerations of industrial planning supervened, and collectivisation was ordered – a sort of huge requisition, rather than a serious agrarian policy (and a measure strongly opposed by virtually everyone who understood agriculture). George H. Carr III(Jody/Jode), 47, of the Cumberland section of Maurice River Twp. Carr does not leave himself open to the kind of demolition-job that Leopold Labedz did on Deutscher.3 He never quite said what he meant. He used these in footnotes, and Carr’s review responded: it went on and on about how documents were not to be taken literally, and how junior officials were so junior that it was a mistake even to mention their opinions. It is not surprising that a study of a country being transformed under the direction of a one-party state should have a good deal to say about the nature and role of the ruling party. A... View Obituary & Service Information He was surrounded by his family as he passed. He was generous to me in the matter of royalties, and in other ways. https://www.lincolnlandcs.com/obituary/Sarah-Carr/Petersburg-Illinois/1880310 It seems to me that this phrase would be better applied to a man who published a vituperative attack on the most eminent historian of his college a few weeks after his death, while praising his still-living collaborator. Writing, later, on agrarian matters, he announced that, in the Ukraine, the Stolypin reforms had ‘worked’, there were independent farmers, the repartitional commune had become ‘obsolete’. Carr. Even so, it is curious to see how reluctant he is to condemn, however crazy a particular policy might seem (for example, the goading of German Communists into active opposition to the Social Democrats – ‘Social Fascists’ – at a time when Hitler was at the gates). The ill-formed assertion that Carr was unable to provide an adequate explanation of the political struggles of the 1920s. That was dismissed as ‘fantastic’. Attempts to improve it gave rise to economic differentiation, especially in the first half of the 1920s, and this was perceived by the party as a threat to its socialist objectives (the passage which stresses growing differentiation is not as Stone claims on p. 229 of Foundations, Vol. His other publications included ''The Soviet Impact on the Western World,'' ''Studies in Revolution'' and ''The Russian Revolution: Lenin to Stalin.''. Bonni {Kern} Carr, 79, of Wooster was welcomed into Heaven on Monday, September 28, 2020 at Brookdale with her beloved cat of 19 years “JoJo”. CLYDE: Beloved husband, father, and grandfather William (Bill) Carr passed away with his loving family by his side on January 2, 2021. https://lfpress.remembering.ca/obituary/richard-carr-1077726570 Face masks and social distancing will be required. 28 Little Russell Street His rise to power is charted in the votes that congresses and committees gave to his men – Molotov, Voroshilov, Kalinin etc. The Twenty Years’ Crisis is assuredly a classic, even the classic work in the subject, and generations of students have profited from this and other books characterised by his brilliant, analytical mind. Mary was born on November 21, 1934, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to the parents of Theodore Roosevelt Melton and Agnes Lucille Melton. His early books, in the Thirties, concerned Dostoevsky, Bakunin and Herzen, who interested him, he said, because they represented a world so far removed from that of his four-square Anglo-Saxon, practical and liberal upbringing. The origins of the Stalinist colossus were of very wide interest. Worse still, he was refused the Chair of International Politics which he could legitimately have expected. As to Messrs Barber and Haslam’s other points, I think they have misunderstood me. There, in Part I of Volume I, Stone will find four chapters and 200 pages of text which lay out as clearly as one could expect Carr’s view of the post-Revolutionary stabilisation. By 1928, the Government faced terrible problems in getting food supplies for the towns, and was already driven to requisition (‘the Urals-Siberian method’ of applying, in generous interpretation, Article 108 of the Code). Besides, as Stone must know, Carr made extensive use of foreign archives and published sources. The passages in the review which deal with our father’s personal life contain many defamatory untruths. It is rather to draw attention to the essentially rhetorical technique of Stone’s enterprise. Ethel Claira Carr Obituary Remember Ethel Claira Carr. He reproves Carr for dismissing the Stolypin reform ‘in a few sentences’, but Carr has over three pages on the reform in the History (Bolshevik Revolution, Vol. Nevertheless, I cannot agree with some of his judgments. Preobrazhensky seriously suggested that ‘bee-keeping and poultry-raising’ should be taxed. Everette H. Carr, Jr., 84, of Allentown, died Dec. 29, 2020 in Cedarbrook. Now quite apart from the fact that Carr uses the word ‘kulak’ either in the usual sense, or in that of his sources (whose lack of definition he deplores), and that he supplies Stone with the arguments purporting to invalidate his position, I defy any reader of the section on rural differentiation in the volume to which Stone refers (Foundations I, 18-26) or of Chapter Four on ‘Land and the Peasant’ to interpret Carr’s text as meaning what Stone implies. What lay between the two was, of course, Stalin’s hectic ‘modernisation’ of the country, to which Isaac Deutscher, in his famous biography of Stalin, had devoted more than a few ecstatic pages. £20.00. Pp. I, p. 120. In conversation, he never gave much away, and he disliked talking to anyone with whom basic principles had not been agreed. In his rage against Carr, Stone frequently bashes the wrong nail on the head. But it would hardly improve our understanding to follow Stone’s naive approach of seizing on one of his ‘three ways of looking at’ the problem as the primary explanation. In Foundations, Volume I, p. 128, he gives up: ‘Not only could no agreement be reached on the nomenclature of the different groups, and on the vital question of which groups were increasing or diminishing, but the criteria of classification themselves were the subject of a long-standing dispute.’ In other words, a man who had made a great reputation as a scholar of the Soviet world has nothing to say on the central issue. In that way, he could cover his tracks against a possible charge of Stalinism (which I make, I think, largely indirectly). Stone seems to believe that an honest historian should adopt a straightforward unambiguous attitude to these great events and stick to it. The obituary was featured in … 169-70, 271-2). The complex chain of events which led to the collapse of NEP was frequently a subject of discussion between Carr and myself, and will continue to be hotly debated among historians and economists. The Russian character fascinated him. He was raised in Celina, OH and was the 4 th of 5 brothers. Everette's Obituary . The fate of the ‘victims of Yalta’ left him quite cold. By the time they became available, Carr was too old to make this sort of expedition. The first volume of Carr’s Revolution is just about useless. It is very difficult to know what is going on. To show, among many other things, how Stalin rose to power is neither to approve of the process, nor to regard it as inevitable. I, pp. But there are also serious historical and intellectual issues involved, which deserve not to be confused by Stone’s disingenuous obituary-cum-review. Towards the end of his life, Carr was interviewed by the New Left Review.1 He was prepared, he said, to recognise the achievements of the Russian Revolution despite all the millions of casualties. Addeddate 2016-02-16 03:05:35 Identifier WhatIsHistory-E.H.Carr Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6sz0gk6j Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ppi 300 Find the obituary of Charles Carr (1934 - 2008) from Erial, NJ. The problem is to interrelate them. Pp. Given the imposing dimensions of the History as it eventually took shape (stigmatised by Stone as ‘gigantomania’), it hardly seems reasonable to demand a detailed treatment of the period before 1917. My information came from people who had known him at the time: either I misunderstood them, or they themselves did not quite remember. Stone himself believes, however, that it was the Kronstadt rising which ‘caused a dramatic reversal of policies (NEP, at the Tenth Congress in spring 1921)’. It was a wonderfully concise account of the life, and it combined psychological penetration with a capacity for irony: Ostrovsky, for instance, ‘was addicted to that particularly Russian form of sentiment which believes that the minor vices, such as drunkenness and dirt, ordinarily cohabit with the major virtues.’ The book is especially good in its treatment of the caesura in Dostoevsky’s life, the years 1863-5, which preceded marriage to Anna Grigorevna and the writing of Crime and Punishment. The poor woman was wrecked by the Herwegh affair, which, like all such involvements, can be made to look funny: but she made a pathetic effort to rid herself of the obsession, went back to her husband and children, and soon died. As it was, from the mathematical spirit he took a quality not so much of abstraction as of autism, which was carried over in his historical work. R.W. Much of this we don’t need to take seriously, like the references to style and long paragraphs or to Richard Pipes’s lack of respect (it is said) for the quality of Carr’s scholarship. This hardly seem too high a proportion. Even then, much of it is the kind of unreconstructed Stalinist version that would not now see the light of day in Russia itself. ELIZABETHTON - Vivian Marie Carr, age 93, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, passed away Sunday, December 13, 2020 at Hillview Health Center in Elizabethton. He strained very hard to show that these kulaks were hiring labour, though even he had to admit that there were only 2,250,000 hired hands in Russian agriculture in 1927, and was honest enough to add that the census was taken at the height of the harvest, that a quarter of the hands were children, and that many of the people involved were village shepherds. At school, the largely Tory boys – it was the Mafeking and Joseph Chamberlain’s stumping the country – did not like a professed Free Trader. He was a very ungenerous reviewer of research-fellowship dissertations, and did not do much to advance his subject through research students (only two attended the funeral). The Civil War is won in Volume I, but the Red Army is discussed – even then, mainly theoretically – only in the sixth volume. Or you can argue that mistakes on that industrial or urban side – failure, for instance, to encourage consumer goods – meant that agriculture was given little chance. I, p. 289, and Foundations of a Planned Economy, Vol. Carr and others showed over thirty years ago that the policy reversal was approved by the party central committee before the Kronstadt rising (Carr’s footnote on this was overlooked by Stone in the very passage he is criticising – ibid. Published: Dec. 28, 2020 at 3:30 PM EST. Add to your memory . Stalin came to power because he could manipulate people and votes, and his position in the Secretariat enabled him to do this. Department of International Politics, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. As Stone should know, the project originated as a single-volume study of the post-Revolutionary order, and the three volumes of The Bolshevik Revolution retained their character as a scene-setting introduction to the main concern, which was to be a study of the years after 1923. The implication of this is, of course, that Russia ‘needed’ Stalin. No one would deny that Carr (along with many of his peers) advocated appeasement up to 1939. Post Now Post. vii + 276. They have, though with difficulty, done so in other Communist countries; equally, in other Communist countries, collectivisation does not appear to have been the disaster it has clearly proved to be in the Soviet Union. (1951). 18-26 and 130-43, discloses about a dozen relating to the North Caucasus out of a total of about 75. But simply look at the chapter headings of the History: agriculture, industry, classes, personalities, labour, the trade unions, the Red Army, religion, literature, migration, finance, planning etc, etc. SIR: I am grateful to Professor Davies (Letters, 17 February) for his spirited defence of his collaborator, and greatly regret that I am crossing swords with him. Mark Alan Carr, 67, passed away on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, after a brief battle with an aggressive form of colon cancer. He did not care for the Faculty at Cambridge – I heard him praise only one of its members, Geoffrey Elton, whom he rated as ‘honest’ (a cut below ‘serious’). The suggestion that this was really the work of R.W. Wells, for his father was the manager of a small factory which had been built up, from artisan beginnings, by his own father. The obituary was featured in The Ledger on July 28, 2020. 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