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. Ma...
Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age.Russia's recent past has encompass...
The extraordinary story of the collection of opportunists, journalists and spies who operated in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when the West were desperate to stop the spread of Bolshevi...