{"product_id":"penguin-history-of-modern-russia","title":"Penguin History Of Modern Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Service''s\u003ci\u003e The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century\u003c\/i\u003e provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Russia''s recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  In his acclaimed history, now revised and updated with a new introduction and final chapter, Robert Service explores the complex, changing interaction between rulers and ruled from Tsar Nicholas II, through the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917; from Lenin and Stalin through to Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  This new edition also discusses Russia''s unresolved economic and social difficulties and its determination to regain its leading role on the world stage and explains how, despite the recent years of de-communization, the seven decades of communist rule which penetrated every aspect of life still continue to influence Russia today.\u003cbr\u003e ''Always well-informed and balanced in his judgements, clear and concise in his analysis ... Service is extremely good on Soviet politics'' Orlando Figes, \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ''A fine book ... it is a dizzying tale and Service tells it well; he has none of the ideological baggage that has so often bedevilled Western histories of Russia'' Brian Moynahan, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRobert Service\u003c\/b\u003e is a Fellow of the British Academy and of St Antony''s College, Oxford. He has written several books, including the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eLenin: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRussia: Experiment with a People\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Stalin: A Biography \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Comrades: A History of World Communism\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as many other books on Russia''s past and present. His most recent book, \u003ci\u003eTrotsky\u003c\/i\u003e, has been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57554761711998,"sku":"NW9780141992051","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141992051.jpg?v=1781592657","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/penguin-history-of-modern-russia","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}