Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet EmpireIn the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving illumination . . . Remnick is the witness for us all." —Wall Street Journal. |
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User Review - Adam Clark - GoodreadsA very impressive account of the last few years of the Soviet Union – drawing on an enormous amount of reports but properly compiled into a book form, the cracks only show occasionally. Above all ... Read full review
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User Review - Goodreads"Nina Aleksandrovna seemed like a logical conservative in her arguments until she "somehow slid into the subject of Jews." Once here she sounded eerily similar to older members of the American ... Read full review
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| Title | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Vintage Books |
| Author | David Remnick |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0679751254, 9780679751250 |
| Length | 588 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union |
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