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Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
Category: History
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered questio ...Show more
Comrades - Communism : A World History by Robert Service
Category: History
From Marx to Mao, from Engels to Allende, from Lenin and Stalin to Ceaucescu and Castro, "Comrades" tells the story of communism from its inception to the present day. It offers a succession of incisive pen-portraits of outstanding leaders and decisive events and spans the nineteenth and twenty-first ce ...Show more
Comrades : Communism - A World History by Robert Service
Category: History
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 uncomfortable conclusion - and an important message for the twenty-first ce ...Show more
Kid Stays in the Picture A Notorious Life by Robert Evans (University of British Columbia, Vancouver Cardiff University Cardiff University Human Relations Service, Wellesley, Massachusetts Human Relations Service, Wellesley, Massachusetts)
Category: Biography
Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling. With black-and-white photographs from t ...Show more
Kremlin Winter - Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
Category: History
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012.Putin's ...Show more
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
Category: History
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012. When Mi ...Show more
Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service
Category: History
Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure. Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece together the private as well as the public ...Show more
Russia: Experiment with a People by Service, Robert
Category: unmapped
The first history of modern Russia from 1991 to the present day by one of the leading historians of the 20th century USSR and Russia. In 1991, in a huge experiment with a people and in a state of euphoria, Boris Yeltsin abolished the USSR and recreated the Russian nation. At the point of its declarat ...Show more
SPELL OF THE YUKON & OTHER POEMS by SERVICE ROBERT
Category: Poetry
There are strange things done in the midnight sun, declared Robert Service as he related the fulfillment of a dying prospector's request. The Cremation of Sam McGee was based on one of many peculiar tales he heard upon his 1904 arrival in the Canadian frontier town of Whitehorse. Less than a decade afte ...Show more
Songs of a Sourdough by Robert Service
Category: Fiction | Series: New Mermaids Ser.
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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West by Robert Service
Category: History
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 do just that. But neither side knew anything about the other. The ...Show more
Spies and Commissars: Russia and the West in the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
Category: History
From an award-winning historian, this is a break-out book in the tradition of "Agent Zig Zag". 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 ...Show more