With Trotsky, Robert Service completes his sweeping biographical trilogy of the three leading Bolshevik revolutionaries. While Lenin's and Stalin's dramatic roles in Russian and Soviet history are ...

Every news story about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall seemed to include one of the signature images of the era -- a statue of Soviet founder V.I. Lenin abandoned on a junk heap.

Your publishing company is preparing a German edition of Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky. This project has provoked surprise and consternation on the part of professional historians. Trotsky ...

Robert Service has written, to great acclaim, a new biography of Leon Trotsky. Service makes exciting claims: that his searches among archival holdings shed new light on the subject, and that he ...

Scott McLemee looks into the controversy surrounding Robert Service's biography of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky--and the reviews it has provoked. EVERY SO often, one scholar will assess ...

Tunku Varadarajan writes that Robert Service’s biography of Leon Trotsky “attracted the ire of die-hard Trotskyites world-wide for saying that their hero shared ...

In a letter dated July 30, 2011, to Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz, who heads the major German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag, 14 prominent historians, political scientists and publicists from Germany and ...

Western historians have been in thrall to the mythic aura Leon Trotsky created for himself—“until now,” said Michael J. Bonafield in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. In his “iconoclastic yet rigorously ...

Robert Service's debunking biography proves that being Stalin’s great enemy does not make Trotsky in any way a good man, says Simon Sebag Montefiore Trotsky, like Mao and to some extent Lenin, has ...

Every so often, one scholar will assess another’s book so harshly that it becomes legendary. The most durable example must be A.E. Housman, whose anti-blurbs retain their sting after a century and ...