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Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
Category: History
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered questio ...Show more
Kid Stays in the Picture A Notorious Life by Robert Evans (University of British Columbia, Vancouver Cardiff University Cardiff University Human Relations Service, Wellesley, Massachusetts Human Relations Service, Wellesley, Massachusetts)
Category: Biography
Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling. With black-and-white photographs from t ...Show more
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
Category: Politics
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012. When Mi ...Show more
Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service
Category: Biography
Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure. Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece together the private as well as the public ...Show more
Songs of a Sourdough by Robert Service
Category: Fiction | Series: New Mermaids Ser.
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Spies and Commissars: Russia and the West in the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
Category: Accessories
From an award-winning historian, this is a break-out book in the tradition of "Agent Zig Zag". In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they were busy ...Show more
The End of the Cold War by Robert Service
Category: History
The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician foresaw that the stand-off between the two superpowers - after decades of struggle over every aspect of security, politics, economics and ideas - would end in their lifetimes. E ...Show more
The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 by Professor of Russian History Robert Service (University of Oxford Fellow of St Anthony's College University of Oxford University of Oxford University of Oxford University of Oxford University of Oxford University of Oxford Fellow of St Anthony's College, University of Oxford)
Category: History
The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician had foreseen that an epoch defined by games of irreconcilable one-upmanship between the world s most heavily armed superpowers would end in their lifetimes. Under the long, forb ...Show more
The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991 by Robert Service
Category: History
On 26 December, 1991, the hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time. Yet, just six years earlier, when Mikhail Gorbach v became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chose Eduard Shevardnadze as his foreign minister, the Cold War seemed like a perma ...Show more
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
Category: History
The acclaimed account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. ...Show more
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
Category: History
In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of that revolution, Robert Service, the eminent historian of Russia, examines Nicholas's reign i ...Show more
The Penguin History of Modern Russia - From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century by Robert Service
Category: History
Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change. In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2015, Robert Service provides a superb panoramic viewpoint on Russia, exploring the complex, changing interaction between ...Show more