 As Director, Pares successfully negotiated the School's re-establishment as an independent institute of the University and its move to the North Wing of the University's new Senate House in Bloomsbury.Pares continued to write on Russian history and literature, publishing most notably his "History of Russia" (1926 and subsequent editions).In 1939, Pares retired as Director, subsequently acting as an adviser to the wartime government on Russian affairs, Taking a favourable attitude toward Stalin, while deploring some of his excesses.