Blood on the Snow - The Russian Revolution 1914-1924

Robert Service''s Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 brings a new vibrancy to the history of the Revolution . . . With its short chapters and choppy sentences, and a title and jacket design that are more airport novel than academic tome, Service''s history reads like a thriller and is all the better for it.

About the author

Robert Service is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony's College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed Lenin: A Biography, Blood on the Snow, Stalin: A Biography and Comrades: A History of World Communism, as well as many other books on Russia's past and present. Trotsky: A Biography was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize. Married with four children, he lives in London.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Service, Service Robert
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2024
• EAN: 9781529065855
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-6585-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Russia, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, FICTION / Historical / World War I, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, c 1920 to c 1929, USSR, Soviet Union, Civil wars, 1917–1923 (Russian Revolutionary period), Russian tsarist empire, History: plagues, diseases, famines