Robert Service.
ROBERT SERVICE
STALIN: A BIOGRAPHY (2004)
Robert Service’s authoritative biography of Stalin covers not only his massive political impact as leader of the Soviet Union but also his personal history - his early years in Georgia, his activism, and his relationship with Lenin.
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Robert Service (born 1947) is a British historian, specialising in twentieth century Russian history. He took a degree in Russian and classical Greek at King’s College, Cambridge. After teaching at Essex and Keele Universities, and at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, he joined Oxford University as Professor of Russian History. He has published biographies of Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky.
