Robert Service (historian)
Robert Service Russian history (1894–) | |
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| Notable works | Biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky |
Robert John Service 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.[1]
Career and reception
Service spent his undergraduate years at
Oxford University
in 1998.
Between 1986 and 1995, Service published a three-volume biography of
Bolshevik
leaders: Lenin (2000), Stalin (2004), and Trotsky (2009).
His biography of Trotsky was strongly criticised by Service's
Stalinist propaganda' for the purpose of discrediting Trotsky.[4][3] Suhrkamp announced in February 2012 that it would publish a German translation of Robert Service's Trotsky in July 2012.[5] The book won the Duff Cooper Prize in the publication year 2009.[1]
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) [6]
- A History of Twentieth-Century Russia (1997)
- The Penguin History of Modern Russia From Tsarism to the 21st Century (1997)[7]
- 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)
- ISBN 0-330-41913-7 (2004)[8]
- Comrades: A World History of Communism (2007)
- Trotsky: A Biography (2009)[9][10][11]
- Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West (2011)[12]
- 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)
References
- ^ a b "Professor Robert Service". St Antony's College. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^ McLemee, Scott. "The Re-Assassination of Leon Trotsky". Inside Higher Ed. 8 July 2011
- ^ a b Weber, Wolfgang. "European historians oppose publication by Suhrkamp of Robert Service's Trotsky biography".
- ^ “Robert Service has written a diatribe, not a scientific polemic!” The World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 28 November 2011
- ^ "The Books Interview: Robert Service". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^ "Professor Robert Service". St. Antony's College, University of Oxford.
- ^ "The Penguin History of Modern Russia – Robert Service – Penguin Books". Penguin.co.uk. 24 September 2009. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ "Review of Robert Service's Stalin: A Biography–Part One". Wsws.org. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ "John Gray on Trotsky by Robert Service". Literary Review. Archived from the original on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ "Review: A 'dis-Service' to Leon Trotsky". socialistworld.net. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ A book that fails to meet the basic standards of historical scholarship The American Historical Review discredits Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky
- ^ "The Books Interview: Robert Service". www.newstatesman.com. 8 June 2021.
External links
Media related to Robert Service at Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Service's homepage
- Library of Economics and Liberty.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Robert Service on The Guardian
