ROBERT SERVICE

Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator...

A comprehensive overview of twentieth-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to 2000 as a single period and analyses the peculiar mixture of political, economic and social ingredients that made up the Soviet compound. It takes the reader from the age of communist rule to the changes that occurred in 1991 and the more uncertain w...

A biography of Stalin which focuses not only on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but also on an assessment of his formative interactions in Georgia, his youthful revolutionary activism, his relationship with Lenin, with his family, and with his party members.