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Robert Service


Born
in The United Kingdom
October 29, 1947

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History, Biographies & Memoirs


This author is the British historian of modern Russia. For the British-Canadian writer of Yukon poetry, see Robert W. Service.

Robert Service is a British academic and historian of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. He is a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford.

He is the author of the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, A History of Twentieth - Century Russia, Russia: Experiment with a People and Stalin: A Biography, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. He wrote a marvelous book on communism titled Comrades Communism A World History (International Bestseller). He is married with four children. ...more

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“A promise made is a debt unpaid," The Cremation of Sam McGee.”
― Robert Service, The Sell of the Yukon
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“Morality is entirely subordinate to the interests of class war. And everything is moral that is necessary for the annihilation of the old, exploiting social order and for uniting the proletariat.”
― Robert Service, The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991
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“The victor powers in the Great War had irresistible force at their disposal if only they could muster the will to deploy it. But they increasingly lacked that will.”
― Robert Service, Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution
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