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Journal Article
Chance and Necessity in History: E. H. Carr and Leon Trotsky Compared
2009
Overview
It was E.H. Carr who dismissed counterfactual history or the \"might-have-been\" school of history as a \"parlour game\" in What is History? Carr's rejection of counterfactual history was a response to Isaiah Berlin's criticism of those who believed in the \"vast impersonal forces\" of history rather than giving priority to the role of the individual and the accidental. For Berlin, Carr was following in the footsteps of Hegel and Marx in regarding history as process that was determined and governed by necessity rather than chance. While the influence of both Hegel and Marx can be seen in Carr's work, this article will argue that Carr's approach to history is distinct from that to be found in classical Marxism as exemplified by Marx, Engels, Plekhanov, Labriola and Trotsky who always accepted the role of chance in history. It compares Carr's historical method to that employed by Trotsky in his History of the Russian Revolution. Adapted from the source document.
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