Robert Service (historian)

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Robert John Service (born 29 October 1947) is a British post-revisionist historian, academic and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the period from the October Revolution in 1917 to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. He has written biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Until 2013 he was a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford, a fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He has been a fellow of the British Academy since 1998.

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