The great historian of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia returns with an enthralling rev...

A comprehensive overview of twentieth-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to ...

On 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. ...

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of t...

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of t...

'A timely and important book . . . he brings to it rare clarity and common sense. His book is a f...

Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated....

Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his...

Almost two decades have passed since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Ro...

In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of t...

The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no...

'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Mich...