Edward Hallet Carr

Edward Hallett "Ted" Carr CBE FBA (28 June 1892 – 3 November 1982) was a British 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 including The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923 (3 vols.), The Interregnum, 1923-1924 (1 vols.), Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926 (3 vols.), Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926-1929 (3 vols.), for his writings on international relations, particularly The Twenty Years' Crisis, and for his book What Is History? in which he laid out historiographical principles rejecting traditional historical methods and practices. Source: E. H. Carr on Wikipedia.