1917-23 covers the period up to Lenin's first withdrawal from the political scene in the Spring of 1923.

This volume discusses the economic policies and predicaments of the first years of the Soviet regime.

“E. H. Carr’s History of Soviet Russia holds a unique position in the vast literature on Bolshevism and Soviet Russia. No other work on this subject comparable in scope and scale exists in English or in any other language, including the Russian.” ― Times Literary Supplement In Volume III, Russia’s geographical position as both a European and an Asian power and her twin aims of promoting world revolution and establishing normal relations with capitalist governments led to severe stresses in Soviet foreign policy. This volume analyzes these strains and their domestic and international ramifications.

E.H. Carr who died in 1982 at the age of 90 was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, & an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His books include International Relations between the Two World Wars 1919-39, The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-39, Nationalism & After, The New Society, What is History?, 1917: Before & After, Michael Bakunin, The Russian Revolution From Lenin to Stalin 1917-29, the 14 volume History of Soviet Russia & The Twilight of the Comintern 1930-35.