Kremlin Winter

Substantial, well-documented … One of our most accomplished, erudite and prolific historians of modern Russia – Rodric Braithwaite * New Statesman *A masterful portrait of Putin and Russia – Jack Coleman * The Daily Telegraph *[A] Nuanced account of Putin in power – Victor Sebestyen * Financial Times *Robert Service, our pre-eminent Kremlinologist, does not offer a lot of new gossip about Putin. He does not believe in demonising the Russian leader. Rather, in a piece of superb analysis, he sets out how Putin the man was swallowed up by the machine he created * The Times *The book has many qualities, not least in ambitious breadth, covering domestic politics, foreign policy, economics and military matters … makes for comprehensive introductory reading for those new to the subject. And in the way of any good book, it will be provocative for those already well versed in it * Literary Review *Service is too good a historian to attempt to string Putin’s actions into a coherent strategy. Rather, he offers a portrait of a leader cobbling together response to a series of crisis – Owen Matthews * Times Literary Supplement *

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, Russia: Experiment with a People, 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 2009 Duff Cooper Prize. Married with four children, he lives in London.

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