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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
Or it could just be that his writing isn't as much to the public's taste as you think it should be? Personally, I find that a more likely explanation than some kind of massive academic conspiracy.
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If Phogg is referring to Robert Service the historian, he is most famous for having written a biography of Leon Trotsky which got absolutely slated by the academic community for being riddled with factual errors, and for falling prey to later propaganda of the Stalinist era which aimed to discredit Trotsky. A German historian led a campaign in academia to try to prevent the book from being published by an academic publisher in Germany because it was so worthless as an academic work.