E.H. CARR who died in 1982 at the age of ninety was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, UK. His books include International Relations between the Two World Wars 1919-1939, The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-1939, Nationalism and After, The New Society, What is History?, 1917: Before and After, Michael Bakunin, The Russian Revolution From Lenin to Stalin 1917-1929, the fourteen volume History of Soviet Russia and The Twilight of the Comintern 1930-1935.

JONATHAN HASLAM is Reader in History of International Relations at Cambridge University, UK. His previous publications include The Soviet Union and the Threat from the East, 1933-41 (1992), The Vices of Integrity: E.H. Carr, 1892-1982 (1999) and No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations Since Machiavelli (2002)

Jonathan Haslam's new preface places these 32 classic essays in their contemporary context

A mixture of historical analyses of key events in 20th century history as well as picture portraits of both major and minor figures from the early 20th century

In the 50th anniversary year of the death of Stalin, considers Stalin's legacy for Russian history

Introduction New Introduction for the 2nd edition; J.Haslam PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES From Napoleon to Stalin (1950) Rights and Obligations (1949) The League of Nations (1952) Lloyd George, Churchill, and the Russian Revolution I (1969) Lloyd George, Churchill, and the Russian Revolution II (1974) The German General Staff (1954) PART II: ESSAYS IN RUSSIAN HISTORY The Pan-Slav Tradition (1951) Liberalism in Alien Soil (1958) Rural Russia (1963) Bolsheviks and Peasants (1972) The Third International (1952) Marriage of Inconvenience (1978) The Legacy of Stalin (1976) Jewry under Bolshevism (1970) The Non-Jewish Jew (1968) PART III: PROFILES Kropotkin (1951) Milyukov (1956) Colonel House (1973) Karl Radek (1971) The Legend of Bukharin (1974) James Headlam-Morley (1972) Harold Laski (1953) Karl Mannheim (1953) Lewis Namier (1971) Stanley Morison (1972) PART IV: SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM Early Socialist Thinkers (1953) Socialism and Marxism (1954) Socialist Twilight (1960) Roots of Revolution (1957) The Marxist Credo (1959) Lukács and Class-Consciousness (1971) Turning to the Right (1966) The Left Today: An Interview (1978) Index