Robert ServiceRobert Service is a British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of Soviet Russia, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death. He is the author of many books, including Spies and Commissar; the acclaimed Lenin: A Biography; Stalin: A Biography; and Comrades: A History of World Communism. He is currently 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. Read More Read Less