Geoff Roberts
Geoffrey Roberts is a specialist in Soveiet and Russian foreign and military policy, Geoffrey Roberts is Emeritus Professor of History at UCC and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His latest book is Stalins Library: a Dictator and His Books (Yale University Press 2022).
Recent articles by Geoff Roberts

5 July 2023
Peace in Ukraine? Faltering counter-offensive, failed coup
The aftermath of Ukraines ailing counter-offensive may be the countrys last chance to avert the utter destruction of a senseless forever war.

23 May 2023
A grim vision of nuclear warfare in Ukraine
In Ukraine, grim visions of a new age of nuclear warfare are the natural counterpart of western hardliners march of folly towards the nuclear brink. Thankfully, there is an alternative, one that has been possible since the very beginning of the conflict and now has growing support among Western publics.

9 May 2023
The Ukraine war and the Hitler analogy
As the Russia-Ukraine war enters what could be its most decisive phase, the award-winning American journalist, Stephen Kinzer, has announced a Society for Abolishing World War II Analogies.