Od zhroucení komunismu ve východní Evropě a SSSR uplynula téměř dvě desetiletí. Robert Service, jeden z předních odborníků na moderní ruské dějiny a profesor na Oxfordské univerzitě, si vytyčuje úkol prozkoumat historii komunismu ve světě. Čerpá z četných zdrojů, mimo jiné i z nově zpřístupněných dokumentů, a nabízí jak lidský pohled na tuto problematiku, tak i globální analýzu. Český čtenář už zná jeho podrobný životopis Lenina. Ve své velice rozsáhlé, avšak čtivé monografii, Service portrétuje i další inspirátory, tvůrce i...

This popular, concise and approachable text discusses the key debates and themes surrounding the Russian Revolution. The expandedfourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated in the light of the latest research, and now features a new scene-setting Introduction and maps. "

Revolutionary practitioner, sparkling writer and icon of the Revolution, Leon Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy.

Service brings 30 years of involvement with Russia and its history to bear on this most controversial and enigmatic of figures. The events of the October Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Terror and, above all, World War II, more open to examination than ever before, are probed to explain the nature of Stalin's personality.

Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on 20th-century history cannot be underestimated. This biography makes use of archive material to piece together his private as well as public life in an effort to give a complete picture of Lenin.

Robert Service, famous for his ballads of life in the Gold Rush years of the Yukon, among them The Shooting of Dangerous Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee," painted pictures of artists, grisettes and models from the merry, tragic life of bohemian Paris of the early 1900s, inspired by the shadows of World War I as it fell across the city.
Throughout these poems are expressions of the poet's own homespun philosophy. His verses offered gaiety, humour, mostalgia and pathos while his comments on women, life and death, ambition, success and failure, were all aimed to evoke quick...