Professor Robert Service, FBA
Robert Service came to Oxford in 1998 and is now Professor of Russian History here. His Cambridge undergraduate degree was in Russian and classical Greek; he switched to politics at Essex for his graduate studies before opting for historical research. 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 principally with twentieth-century Russian history, cover social and cultural as well as political aspects. He has always connected this work with the analysis of contemporary Russia. He broadcasts and writes for the press more than is good for his sanity. He is a frequent visitor to Russia and a survivor of its hotels and institutional planning. He likes hill-walking, singing and strumming. His latest book is a world history of communism, which took him out of purely Russian affairs. He is curently engaged on a biographical study of Leon Trotsky. 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) and Comrades. Communism: A World History (2007). Contact: Telephone +44 1865 284747 Email: robert.service@sant.ox.ac.uk |
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