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Lenin's Tomb

The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

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Lenin's Tomb

By: David Remnick
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
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In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism.

©2015 David Remnick (P)2015 Random House Audio 20th Century Europe Modern Politics & Government Russia Soviet Union Socialism Imperialism War Stalin Capitalism Holocaust Self-Determination

Critic Reviews

"A moving illumination.... Remnick is the witness for us all." ( The Wall Street Journal)
"An engrossing and essential addition to the human and political literature of our time." ( The New York Times)
"The most eloquent chronicle of the Soviet empire's demise published to date.... It is hard to conceive of a work that might surpass it." (Francine du Plessix Gray, Washington Post Book World)
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This book was phenomenal. It did a really good job of telling the story though the eyes of a reporter who was there, constantly weaving in personal anecdotes with societal events. The protagonist (the author) clearly has a few bones to pick with the USSR government (as he should) but still manages to be remarkably objective given that this was written so close to the historical events it describes.

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Thorough, fascinating, and written with great dry wit. A great background to current world events.

Great background to current world events

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