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Robert John Service FBA (born 29 October 1947) is a post-revisionist British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death.
Folksinger Jim Ratts read some of Service's poetry for his 1993 studio album, "Buckwheat at Your Service: The Readings of Robert Service." Raven Records RVNCD9303. The Canadian whisky Yukon Jack incorporated various excerpts of his writings in their ads in the 1970s, one of which was the first four lines of his poem “The Men Who Don't Fit In”.
Regarding the motives for compiling it, Robert Service quoted a Bolshevik official who said there was a need for a book which "instead of the Bible" would "give a rigorous answer [...] [t]o the many important questions" [citation needed]. At the time, the party was concerned with the abundance of publications about the AUCP (B)'s history and ...
Trotsky: A Biography is a biography of the Marxist theorist and revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) written by the English historian Robert Service, then a professor in Russian history at the University of Oxford. It was first published by Macmillan in 2009 and later republished in other languages.
Lenin: A Biography is a biography of the Marxist theorist and revolutionary Vladimir Lenin written by the English historian Robert Service, then a professor in Russian History at the University of Oxford. It was first published by Macmillan in 2000 and later republished in other languages.
World history in the Western tradition is commonly divided into three parts, viz. ancient, medieval, and modern time. [2] The division on ancient and medieval periods is less sharp or absent in the Arabic and Asian historiographies.
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