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Robert Service

1947 - Today

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Robert John Service (born 29 October 1947) is a British post-revisionist historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the period from the October Revolution in 1917 to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. 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 has written biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. Service has been a fellow of the British Academy since 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Service is the 496th most popular historian (up from 504th in 2019), the 4,704th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,538th in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Robert Service ranks 496 out of 561. Before him are Samuel Eliot Morison, Michelle Perrot, Rainer Zitelmann, Frederic G. Kenyon, Thomas Walker Arnold, and Alfred W. Crosby. After him are Daniel Pipes, William of Newburgh, American Horse, Walter Rodney, Gregory Areshian, and Mark Mazower.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Robert Service ranks 683. Before him are Denis Oswald, Hans Jacobson, Boujemaa Benkhrif, Paulo de Carvalho, Boris Gulko, and Wayne Allwine. After him are Glenn Cornick, Frank Shorter, Leena Krohn, Rói Patursson, Finn Kalvik, and Carlos Mendes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Service ranks 4,705 out of 8,785. Before him are Roy Kinnear (1934), Jimmy Gallagher (1901), Roger Ashton-Griffiths (1957), Allan Clarke (1942), Rick Allen (1963), and David Garnett (1892). After him are Glenn Cornick (1947), Rupert Davies (1916), Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland (1393), Alma Cogan (1932), Heather Harper (1930), and Stan Mortensen (1921).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Robert Service ranks 59. Before him are Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), William Robertson (1721), William Dalrymple (1965), Thomas Fuller (1608), Frederic G. Kenyon (1863), and Thomas Walker Arnold (1864). After him are William of Newburgh (1130), Mark Mazower (1958), William Mitchell Ramsay (1851), N. G. L. Hammond (1907), Richard Overy (1947), and Hugh N. Kennedy (1947).

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