E.H. Carr, Isaac Deutscher, Roman Rosdolsky, and the making of history

Cox, Michael (2022) E.H. Carr, Isaac Deutscher, Roman Rosdolsky, and the making of history. Critique (United Kingdom), 50 (1). 17 - 23. ISSN 0301-7605

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Abstract

E.H.Carr and Isaac Deutscher were by any measure the two most important left-wing historians working in Britain during the Cold War. Their work not only led to both to being attacked by both conservatives and liberals at the time. They also found themselves subject in 1963 to a powerful broadside authored by Roman Rosdolsky, the Ukrainian Marxist now living in the USA. In his attack Rosdolsky berated the two together for failing to explain in Marxist terms the role (or otherwise) played by 'accident' and the 'individual' in history. This article examines the Carr-Deutscher relationship, what united and what divided them, and why they found themselves subject to Rosdolsky's detailed critique.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcso20
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Author
Divisions:	IGA: LSE IDEAS
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D839 Post-war History, 1945 on
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2022 16:00
Last Modified:	05 Jul 2024 21:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/115580

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