Article: The ice in Stalin's heart Michael Burleigh considers the rise of the one-time seminary boy to dictator and mass killer

Article: BOOK OF THE WEEK BIOGRAPHY Trotsky By Robert ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... only of his own life but of Stalin's, too. While Lenin and ... brutal monsters not unlike Stalin himself, the best biography ... Bolshevik leaders (Lenin and Stalin already published), Robert Service delivers an outstanding, fascinating ...

Article: STALIN: A BIOGRAPHY by Robert Service
The Press;  December 11, 2004 ;     365 words ...STALIN: A BIOGRAPHY by Robert Service. Macmillan, hardback, 715pp, $75. . When Stalin's body was put on ... examining every aspect of Stalin's life and works and ... himself of colleagues). Robert Service is one of the most distinguished ...

Article: Books: Portrait of Russia's evil tyrant; STALIN: A ...
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  September 3, 2005 ;     448 words ... ... than half a century Joseph Stalin - the 'Man of Steel ... terror, Russia historian Robert Service has pieced together a new account of Stalin's rise to power, the forces ... bend others to his will. Stalin worked hard in his lifetime ...

Transcript: Interview: Robert Service discusses the upcoming ...
NPR All Things Considered;  May 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... biography of Josef Stalin, our wartime ... California. Robert Service, in the war ... Professor ROBERT SERVICE (Oxford University ... Author, "Stalin: A Biography ... SIEGEL: Robert Service, the author of "Stalin: A Biography ...

Article: How the Red Army saved us all Russia's War by Richard Overy Allen ...
The Independent - London;  August 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... campaign would have given Stalin the leisure to go on building ... as important. Hitler and Stalin are depicted in all their gruesomeness, but Stalin is given a somewhat easier ... epitaph in their own country. Robert Service is professor of Russian ...

Article: Robert Service. The Russian Revolution, ...
Teaching History: A Journal of Methods;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... controversial part of history for undergraduate students. Robert Service provides a broad overview of the Russian Revolution in a brief ... changes and phases over the succeeding decade until Joseph Stalin gains complete control over the Soviet Union, when most historians ...

Article: Books: The Alf Garnett of revolution A new analysis of Lenin is ...
The Independent - London;  March 26, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Lenin's Gulag, expanded by Stalin, was one of the foulest inventions of 20th century mass-production ... death. While making energetic use of newly liberated archives, Robert Service's book misses a substantial opportunity to set his subject ...