Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He is a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Service was awarded the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for his biography Trotsky (Harvard His research interests concern Russian history and politics in all its aspects, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The Last of the Tsars by Robert Service review – dispelling the myths ... Putin’s government, along with Russian public opinion, is still conflicted in … Service concludes with a defence against pessimism, and a call for hope. Kremlin Winter: Russian and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service (Picador, £25) Read more book reviews on theartsdesk; @mmcosmoi In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of our finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep … * Literary Review * Robert Service, our pre-eminent Kremlinologist, does not offer a lot of new gossip about Putin. Change is possible, but readers of the Kremlin Winter will surely wonder how things got so bad. Robert Service is a British academic and historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. * The Times * show more 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 including Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin. Robert John Service FBA (born 29 October 1947) is a British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death. Putin knows Russia is no longer a superpower, but he can bolster his standing at home by destabilising the west, writes author Robert Service Published: 15 Nov 2017 Published: 15 Nov 2017 He does not believe in demonising the Russian leader. Bun cunoscător al Rusiei, Robert Service face un portret al omului care o conduce şi ne arată ce s-ar putea întîmpla în viitorul apropiat. Updating his acclaimed "History of Modern Russia," Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars. https://www.hoover.org/events/robert-service-putins-russia-threat-or-opportunity „Un portret magistral al lui Putin şi al Rusiei.” (Daily Telegraph) Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Despite this, there have been signs of liberal growth and Putin - and Russia - now faces a far from certain future. Rather, in a piece of superb analysis, he sets out how Putin the man was swallowed up by the machine he created. Robert Service, a noted Russian historian and political commentator, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford.