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

Ukraine: Versailles or Brest-Litovsk?

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.

Negotiate now, or capitulate later: ten incentives for Ukraine to make peace with Russia

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.

Restraining Russia through friendship

Restraining Russia through friendship

The late historian Paul Schroeder offered insights into how to bring Russia into a collective security arrangement.

Ukraine last chance for a negotiated peace?

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.

The trouble with telling history as it happens

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.

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