Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by:
David Remnick (author)
In 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...
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In 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679751250 (0679751254)
ASIN: 679751254
Publish date: April 26th 1994
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 624
Edition language: English
Having to put this one on hold for awhile, as while I was loving the book wasn't I wasn't happy with the audio version as this is one that needs to be read in order to underline and get the best from the book and my Library trying to source a copy for me as they don't have one in stock. Terrific re...
This is a surprisingly smooth, easy, and completely enrapturing read. It's, in fact, incredible. Non-fiction, as educational and interesting as it may get, tends to get pushed to the last in my reading list because, let's face it, it's kind just more boring. Remnick is not only a compelling and hone...
David Remnick reports on the final uproarious days of USSR.As a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post he managed to look at the regime in a personal way. Under the fiery socialist frown of gigantic Lenin statues he noodles around more as a Moscovite than as a foreigner.Remnick met interestin...
17 years ago
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