Robert Service

The Penguin History of Modern Russia by Robert Service is the definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in 2020. Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change. In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2020,...

From acclaimed historian and author of Kremlin Winter and Blood on the Snow, a dramatic and expertly researched account of an extraordinary moment in Russia's recent history: The August Coup. In the summer of 1991, a group of eight plotters came together to overthrow Mikhail Gorbachëv, then the president of the USSR. These ruthless conspirators, who occupied positions of high...