The Bolshevik party in revolution: A study in organisational change, 1917-1923

SERVICE, Robert

Barnes&Noble Books

Rhymes of the Midnight Sun: A Robert Service Treasury

McGraw=Hill

Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age.\nRussia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change.\nIn his acclaimed history, now revised and updated with a new introduction and final chapter, Robert Service explores the complex, changing interaction between rulers and ruled from Tsar Nicholas II, through the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917; from Lenin and Stalin through to Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin and beyond.\nThis new edition also discusses Russia's unresolved economic and social difficulties and its determination to regain its leading role on the world stage and explains how, despite the recent years of de-communization, the seven decades of communist rule which penetrated every aspect of life still continue to influence Russia today. 
'Always well-informed and balanced in his judgements, clear and concise in his analysis ... Service is extremely good on Soviet politics' Orlando Figes, Sunday Telegraph\n'A fine book ... it is a dizzying tale and Service tells it well; he has none of the ideological baggage that has so often bedevilled Western histories of Russia' Brian Moynahan, Sunday Times\nRobert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Russia: Experiment with a People, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. His most recent book, Trotsky, has been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize.

The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition

History

Russia

Penguin

.."". we are indebted to the author for a stimulating and balanced study of Lenin -- a study that presents many valuable insights and a good deal of new material based on his archive research, and that sharpens our picture and understanding of 'the dreamer in the Kremlin.'"" -- The Russian Review
Lenin: A Political Life is a major three-volume work on Vladimir Ilich Lenin, his ideas, activity, and environment. The first volume, covering the years from 1870 to 1910, traces his rise to authority and his political troubles after 1903. Service ably demonstrates the complex interplay of ideas, activity, and environment that prompted the choice of title for the first volume: The Strengths of Contradiction.

Lenin: A Political Life, The Strengths of Contradiction, Vol. 1

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Indiana University Press

Robert Service, a well-known scholar of Russian history, has now written the second of a projected three-volume intellectual and political biography of Lenin, founder of the Soviet state. "Worlds in Collision" is as thorough and tightly written as the first volume, picking up the thread of Lenin's life as he struggled for party control in 1910 and closing with his ascent to power in 1918. The tale of his political relationships and maneuvers toward power is interwoven with the development of his thought and the history of his writings. Even as the Soviet state is reconsidered, Lenin remains a figure in high relief amidst the lives of contemporary revolutionaries, thinkers, and leaders. Both primary and secondary sources have been consulted for this ambitious study. A significant and unique work for all scholarly and many general collections. - Rena Fowler, Northern Michigan Univ

Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 2: Worlds in Collision

THIRD VOLUME: THE IRON RING. This is the third and final volume of a political biography by a well-respected scholar of Russian history. As in the earlier volumes, Vol. 1: The Strengths of Contradiction (LJ 7/85) and Vol. 2: Worlds in Collision (LJ 5/15/91), the study is of Lenin the individual, not his times; however, Lenin's relationships with Stalin and Trotsky are subject to special treatment. For this latter period from 1918 to Lenin's death in 1924, the author treats the assassination attempt upon the leader's life, peace with the Axis powers, the Civil War, the rise of Comintern, and the development of the New Economic Policy, as documented in both primary and secondary sources, including recently opened Soviet archival materials. Service portrays Lenin as a self-confident visionary and state terrorist committed to the centralization of power whose actions prepared the way for Stalinism. This is a significant and well-written study with a place in both general and scholarly collections.

Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 3: The Iron Ring

SERVICE, Robert W.

Robert Service has revised and updated his popular book on the Russian Revolution, offering an integrated account of politics, sociology and economics. He has widened the focus out from 1917 so as to cover both the final years of the Romanov dynasty and t

The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927, Third Edition (Studies in European History)

Military

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Reveals the complex story of the Soviet dictator, from his dysfunctional childhood in Soviet Georgia, through his education and early political activism, to his tyrannical control over the Soviet Union and the legacy of his reign.

Stalin: A Biography

Leaders & Notable People

Picador

Almost two decades have passed since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Robert Service, one of our finest historians of modern Russia, sets out to examine the history of communism throughout the world. His uncomfortable conclusion - and an important message for the twenty-first century is that although communism in its original form is now dead or dying, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling, compellingly written and brilliantly argued, this is a superb work of history and one that demands to be read. 'Bears all the hallmarks of a classic work of historical literature the true international legacy of communism [is] analyzed to magisterial effect in this exhilarating work' Hwyel Williams New Statesman 'One of the best-ever studies of the subject a remarkable accomplishment' Economist 'An outstanding book, written with grace and style' Daily Telegraph '[A] brilliantly distilled world history of communism Confronted by Service's amazing array of evidence to show that communism could only ever have flourished under conditions of extreme and all-pervasive oppression, only the determinedly soft-headed would try to argue with him' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

Comrades: Communism: A World History

Religion & Spirituality

Pan/Macmillan

Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives and on his profound understanding of Russian history to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy, revealing that though his followers have represented Trotsky as a pure revolutionary soul and a powerful intellect unjustly hounded into exile by Stalin and his henchmen. The reality is very different, as this masterful and compelling biography reveals.

Trotsky: A Biography

Pan Books, Ltd.

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