Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by:
David Remnick (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417719020 (1417719028)
Publish date: April 1st 1994
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 588
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...