Question

According to the passage, what is the author's stance on one of the determinist historians?

• A. The author is critical about the opinion of one of the determinist historians
  
  
• B. The author respects the determinist historian views but disagrees with the historians' reasoning
• C. The author does not expect the determinist historian to be sympathetic to counterfactual history
• D. The author agrees with the views of the determinist historian.

Answer 1

The correct option is B

The author respects the determinist historian views but disagrees with the historians' reasoning

The following line from the last paragraph justifies option (b).
"That may well be true, but does it entitle Carr to argue from the particular circumstances of aggrieved victims of the Bolshevik revolution to a general assertion that counter-factualism is without merit?"
The author agrees with their views but he says that determinists historians are generalizing things based on single example.
Indirectly he says that he is not happy with their reasoning methodology.
So answer is option (b).
He is not directly critical about them.