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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Robert William Service
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(born Jan. 16, 1874, Preston, Lancashire, Eng. — died Sept. 11, 1958, Lancieux, France) English-born Canadian popular verse writer. He immigrated to Canada in 1894 and lived eight years in the Yukon. His Songs of a Sourdough (1907) and Ballads of a Cheechako (1909), about life in the "frozen North," were enormously popular. He became known as "the Canadian Kipling" with such rollicking ballads as "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee". His other works include the novel The Trail of '98 (1910) and Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (1916).

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Service, Robert William, 1874-1958, Canadian poet and novelist, b. England, educated at the Univ. of Glasgow. He went to Canada in 1897 and held odd jobs in British Columbia and at Whitehorse in the Yukon. His famous ballad "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" appeared in Songs of a Sourdough (1907, repr. 1915 as The Spell of the Yukon). Celebrations of the rough ways of Klondike life continued in Ballads of a Cheechako (1909) and in the novel The Trail of '98 (1910). Service became a foreign correspondent in 1912 and drove an ambulance during World War I, an experience that gave him material for Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (1916). He spent the rest of his life, except during World War II, in France and Monte Carlo. His later works did not win the tremendous popularity of the earlier ones. His autobiography was issued in two volumes, Ploughman of the Moon (1945) and Harper of Heaven (1948).
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1874-1958.

British-born Canadian writer of poetry and novels about life in the Yukon, including the ballad "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" (1907).


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1907"The Shooting of Dan McGrew." Service's most famous poem is a ballad set during the Klondike gold rush. It is collected in the volume Songs of a Sourdough, the first in a string of comparable ballad collections. The Canadian-born poet and novelist lived for a number of years near the Arctic Circle.

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"A promise made is a debt unpaid."

"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

Wikipedia: Robert Service (historian)
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Professor Robert John Service (born 29 October 1947) is a British historian of Russia. He is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.

Service spent his undergraduate years at Cambridge, where he studied Russian and classical Greek. He went to Essex and Leningrad universities for his postgraduate work, and taught at Keele and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, before joining Oxford University in 1998, where he is currently Professor of Russian History.

Between 1986 and 1995, Service published a three-volume biography of Lenin. He has also written several works of general history on 20th-century Russia such as A History of Twentieth-Century Russia. He has recently completed a trilogy of biographies: Lenin (2000), Stalin (2004) and Trotsky (2009).

Works

  • The Bolshevik Party in Revolution 1917-23: A Study in Organizational Change (1979)
  • A History of Twentieth-Century Russia (1997)
  • The Russian Revolution, 1900-27 (Studies in European History) (1999)
  • A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin (1998, Second edition in 2003)
  • Lenin: A Biography (2000)
  • Russia: Experiment with a People (2002)
  • Stalin: A Biography (2004)[1]
  • Comrades: A World History of Communism (2007)
  • Trotsky: A Biography (2009)[2][3]

References

  1. ^ http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/stal-j02.shtml
  2. ^ http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/gray_10_09.html
  3. ^ http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2009/10/1401.html

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