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Robert Service

1947 - Today

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Robert John Service (born 29 October 1947) is a post-revisionist British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death. He was until 2013 a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is best known for his biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Service has received more than 21,821 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Robert Service is the 504th most popular historian (down from 407th in 2019), the 4,537th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,212th in 2019) and the 61st most popular British Historian.

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  • 22k

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  • 44.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Robert Service ranks 504 out of 561. Before him are Stephen Greenblatt, Simon Schama, Alessandro Barbero, Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, Horace Engdahl, and Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa. After him are Rainer Zitelmann, Robert Kagan, Walter Rodney, Carroll Quigley, A. H. M. Jones, and Mary Beard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Robert Service ranks 653. Before him are Mustapha Choukri, Ian Millar, Claudio Sala, Giulio Tremonti, Denis Lawson, and Grethe Kausland. After him are Xavier Darcos, Mike Burton, Viacheslav Semenov, Dagmar Käsling, Emlyn Hughes, and David Robb.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Service ranks 4,537 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Sweet (1845), Tony Rolt (1918), Scott Speedman (1975), John Urry (1946), John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1680), and Kathryn Beaumont (1938). After him are Cathleen Nesbitt (1888), Ken Armstrong (1924), Binnie Barnes (1903), Robert Edmond Grant (1793), Simon Blackburn (1944), and William Shanks (1812).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Robert Service ranks 61. Before him are Kenneth Clark (1903), Henry James Sumner Maine (1822), Orlando Figes (1959), H. J. R. Murray (1868), George Grote (1794), and Simon Schama (1945). After him are A. H. M. Jones (1904), Mary Beard (1955), Lawrence Stone (1919), Mark Mazower (1958), David Abulafia (1949), and Hugh N. Kennedy (1947).

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