Geoffrey Roberts
Geoffrey Roberts is Emeritus Professor of History at University College Cork, National University of Ireland, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He published “Stalins General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov” (2012), which was awarded the Society for Military Historys Distinguished Book Award, and “Churchill and Stalin: Comrades-in-Arms during the Second World War” (2019). His latest book is Stalins Library: A Dictator and His Books (2022).
Recent articles by Geoffrey Roberts
24 October 2024
Ukraine: Versailles or Brest-Litovsk?
As it reels from one battlefield defeat after another, Ukraine faces a fateful choice: sue for peace or fight to the bitter end.
17 June 2024
Negotiate now, or capitulate later: ten incentives for Ukraine to make peace with Russia
As the Ukrainian war appears to be nearing its conclusion, the question is what a peace could look like.
20 May 2024
Restraining Russia through friendship
The late historian Paul Schroeder offered insights into how to bring Russia into a collective security arrangement.
26 September 2023
Ukraine last chance for a negotiated peace?
The next few weeks could be Ukraines last chance to grasp the flower of safety from the nettle of war by negotiating a compromise peace with Russia that would safeguard its future statehood and sovereignty.
5 August 2023
The trouble with telling history as it happens
In the Ukraine War, scholar Serhii Plokhy has his own biases, which can get in the way of his professions fidelity to evidence.