Robert Service (historian) facts for kids
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Robert Service
FBA
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Service speaking at the Tallinn Literature Festival HeadRead in May 2011
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Robert John Service
29 October 1947 United Kingdom
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| Awards | Duff Cooper Prize (2009) |
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| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
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| 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 October 29, 1947) is a British historian, academic, and author. A historian is someone who studies and writes about the past. Robert Service has written many books about the history of the Soviet Union. This was a very large country that existed from 1922 to 1991.
He focused especially on the period from the October Revolution in 1917 until the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. This was a very important time in Russian history.
Until 2013, Service was a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He was also a fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. A fellow is a senior member of a college. He was also a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution in the United States.
Robert Service has written important biographies, which are books about people's lives. His biographies are about three major figures in Soviet history: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. Since 1998, he has been a Fellow of the British Academy. This is a special honor for experts in humanities and social sciences.
Books by Robert Service
Robert Service has written many books that help us understand the history of Russia and the Soviet Union. Here are some of his well-known 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)
- 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
In Spanish: Robert Service para niños
