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 76) 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 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. 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 is best known for his biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. He has been a fellow of the British Academy since 1998.^[1]