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Robert Service talked about his book The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991, in which he looks at the final years of the Cold War from both the U.S. and Soviet perspectives.

Historian Robert Service spoke with former Secretary of State George Shultz about the final years of the Cold War. Mr. Shultz served in the Reagan administration from 1982-1989. The conversa…

Robert Service talked about his newest book Trotsky: A Biography (Belknap Press, 2009). His book examines the life of Leon Trotsky, a Russian revolutionary and Marxist theorist who was one o…

When the once-secret Soviet state and party archives were opened in the early 1990s, Western scholars were able to gain new insight into the inner workings of the Soviet Union. Paul Gregory …

Robert Service talked about his book Stalin: A Biography, published by Belknap Press. The book described the life and times of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, detailing his childhood, ed…