Robert Service (historian)

Robert Service FBA
Service speaking at the Tallinn Literature Festival HeadRead in May 2011
Born	Robert John Service (1947-10-29) 29 October 1947 (age 77) United Kingdom
Awards	Duff Cooper Prize (2009)
Academic background
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge
Academic work
Institutions	University of Oxford
Main interests	Russian history (1894–)
Notable works	Biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky

Robert John Service FBA (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 was until 2013 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 written biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. Service has been a fellow of the British Academy since 1998.^[1]