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. Antonys 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 Russias past and present. He wrote a marvelous book on communism titled Comrades Communism A World History (International Bestseller). He is married with four children.Read Less