Blood on the Snow
31 October 2024
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' – Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich
In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution.
For Service, the great unanswered question is how to reconcile the two vital narratives...
Details
31 October 2024
496 pages
9781529065855
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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.Michael Burleigh, author of Day of the Assassins and The Third Reich: A New History
Blood on the Snow crowns Robert Service’s four decades of work on the Russian Revolution and its perpetrators.The Literary Review
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.The Times
Robert Service’s Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914–1924 brings a new vibrancy to the history of the Revolution . . . With its short chapters and choppy sentences, and a title and jacket design that are more airport novel than academic tome, Service’s history reads like a thriller and is all the better for it.TLS