Robert Service (historian), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Robert Service (historian)

British historian

Date of Birth: 29-Oct-1947

Place of Birth: United Kingdom

Profession: writer, historian, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Robert John Service (born 29 October 1947) is a British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death.
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 is best known for his biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky.