Robert Service

Robert Service is a British historian whose work centres on the Soviet Union, especially the years from the October Revolution of 1917 to Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. He has written biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Stalin and Leon Trotsky, and Lenin: A Biography and Stalin carry his name. Until 2013 he was professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford, a fellow of St Antony's College, and a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. He has been a fellow of the British Academy since 1998.