Service Robert

Historia komunistów w jednej książce!I to w jakiej książce! Towarzysze to błyskotliwa i kompetentna opowieść o jednej z najbardziej zbrodniczych ideologii w dziejach świata. O ludziach, którzy w imię nieuchronnego - naukowo stwierdzonego - postępu, w imię uciemiężonych mas robotniczych spowodowali śmierć dziesiątków milionów ludzi i zniewolenie...

Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure. Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece together the private as well as the public life, giving the first complete picture of...

Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated bureaucrat or serial political killer, but on a fuller assessment of his formative interactions in...

Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim, Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto...

The extraordinary story of the collection of opportunists, journalists and spies who operated in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when the West were desperate to stop the spread of Bolshevism and Lenin and Trotsky were equally committed to the opposite. In the popular narrative history of "Agent Zigzag", this tells the tale of such...