Robert Service (historian) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Robert Service FBA
Service speaking at the Tallinn Literature Festival HeadRead in May 2011
Born	Robert John Service (1947-10-29) 29 October 1947 (age 77) United Kingdom
Awards	Duff Cooper Prize (2009)
Academic background
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge
Academic work
Institutions	University of Oxford
Main interests	Russian history (1894–)
Notable works	Biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky

Robert John Service FBA (born 29 October 1947) is a post-revisionist British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death. He was until 2013 a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is best known for his biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. He has been a fellow of the British Academy since 1998.

Works

• The Bolshevik Party in Revolution 1917–23: A Study in Organizational Change (1979)
• Lenin: A Political Life (in three volumes: 1985, 1991 and 1995)
• A History of Twentieth-Century Russia (1997)
• The Penguin History of Modern Russia From Tsarism to the 21st Century (1997)
• A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin (1998, Second edition in 2003)
• The Russian Revolution, 1900–27 (Studies in European History) (1999)
• Lenin: A Biography (2000)
• Russia: Experiment with a People (2002)
• Stalin: A Biography (2004), Oxford, 715 pages ill. ISBN: 0-330-41913-7 (2004)
• Comrades: A World History of Communism (2007)
• Trotsky: A Biography (2009)
• Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West (2011)
• The End of the Cold War: 1985–1991 (2015)
• The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution (2017)
• Russia and Its Islamic World (2017)
• Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin (2019)
• Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 (2023)

See also

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