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Blood on the Snow

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31 October 2024
496 pages
9781529065855
Imprint: Picador

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Robert Service’s Blood on the Snow is his masterwork, the product of decades of thought about Russia’s past. A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today
The work of a lifetime . . . high-octane, high-political drama
Blood on the Snow crowns Robert Service’s four decades of work on the Russian Revolution and its perpetrators
This authoritative, detailed account shows how Lenin won control of Russia and caused untold misery . . . Service takes a methodical approach, carefully outlining the sequence of events and always emphasising the importance of simple luck. In contrast to other authors, he lets ordinary people have their voice, through an assortment of otherwise neglected diaries