Robert Service

Could the West have done more to help Russia?

The Soviet and Russian flags fly over the Kremlin, 18 December 1991. The Soviet flags will be taken down on 31 December 1991 (photo: Getty)
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Robert Service

Robert Service is Emeritus Professor of Russian History, St Antony’s College Oxford and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His latest book is Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution, 1914-1924.

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