Robert Service (1) (1947–)
Auteur van Lenin: A Biography
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Robert Service was born on October 29, 1947. He received an MA in modern languages from the University of Cambridge and an MA and a PhD in government from the University of Essex. He is a Russian historian and political commentator. He has written numerous books including Comrades: A World History toon meer of Communism; Stalin: A Biography, Lenin: A Biography, and Spies and Commissars. He received the 2009 Duff Cooper Prize for Trotsky: A Biography. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Robert Service performing in Tallinn University by Ave Maria Mõistlik
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- Robert Service arrived in Oxford in 1998 and became Professor of Russian History. His Cambridge undergraduate degree was in Russian and ancient Greek; he switched to politics at Essex for his graduate studies before opting for research in history. He went on an exchange scholarship to Leningrad before appointments at Keele University and the London School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
His books and articles, dealing mainly with twentieth-century Russian history, cover economic, social and cultural as well as political aspects. He connects this work with the analysis of contemporary Russia. He broadcasts and writes for the press. He is a frequent visitor to Russia. He likes hill-walking, singing and strumming. His latest book is an account of Russia and the West in the early years of the October Revolution. Continuing an interest in international relations, he is completing an account of the end of the Cold War.
Main publications: The Bolshevik Party in Revolution: A Study in Organisational Change (1979), Lenin: A Political Life (in three volumes: 1986, 1991 and 1995), The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927 (1986; third, revised edition, 1999), A History of Twentieth Century Russia (1997; second, expanded edition appears as A History of Modern Russia, 2001), Lenin: A Biography (2000), Russia: Experiment with a People, From 1991 to the Present (2002), Stalin: A Biography (2004), Comrades. Communism: A World History (2007), Trotsky: A Biography (2009) and Spies and Commissars (2011).
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When I started reading the book, I was concerned that the quoted praise from the press included the Telegraph (a right wing UK newspaper) but not the likes of the Guardian. As I began to read, I was delighted that this was, obviously, going to be a well researched book containing more facts about Lenin than anything else that I had found. By the time I was getting towards the middle of the book, I was beginning to see the right wing liking for it: too often for my liking, Mr Service was telling me how Lenin felt about this or that... HOW COULD HE KNOW??? One can write that a person reported feeling X or Y; one may say that someone else suggested that a person felt such an emotion but, only the subject really knows their feelings and Lenin was not the sort of man to believe that his feelings were important - far less, would he report them.
I may have stopped reading but, as I previously said, if there is a better source of the facts surrounding Lenin, I have yet to find it. Fortunately, I continued and Robert Service pulled the text around and we returned to fact, with any supposition clearly enunciated as that of the author.
I won't pretend to have a full understanding of Lenin. By the remarks of Mr Service in the concluding section of the work, he has not so done either but, I am much nearer to comprehending the father of Marxism-Leninism and, he is not the cardboard cut out figure of either messianic adoration or satanic loathing that is so often the result of these books.
Well worth reading.
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