Professor Robert Service at Jaipur Literature Festival, 31 January 2025

‘I don’t think anybody owes Stalin a bean. He covered up everything he possibly could. Trotsky on the other hand even kept bus tickets’

RESC Emeritus Professor Robert Service participated in the 18th Jaipur Literature Festival (30 January – 3 February 2025). A panel about the biographer’s art can be accessed here. The full line-up: Robert Service, Benjamin Moser, Janaki Bakhle, Narayani Basu and Tina Brown in conversation with Anita Anand. The panel starts at 8 minutes 20 seconds in.