Almost two decades have passed since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Robert Service, one of our finest historians of modern Russia, sets out to examine the history of communism throughout the world. His...

A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of the finest Russian historians writing today.In March 1917, Nicholas II, the last Tsar of All the Russias, abdicated and the dynasty that had...

The Last of the Tsars von Service, Robert

With a new Afterword.Whether as president or prime minister, Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. But the future for Putin - and Russia - is far from...

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 introducing in Russia should...

Trotsky: A Biography von Service, Robert

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin...

Das Buch "The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century" von Robert Service ist eine umfassende Untersuchung der russischen Geschichte vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Es beginnt mit der Ära des...