ISBN: 0679751254 9780679751250

Category: History / Russia / General

Page count: 624

<b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize</b><br><b>One of the Best Books of the Year: <i>The New York Times <br></i></b><br>From the editor of <i>The New Yorker</i>: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. <i>Lenin’s Tomb </i>combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75-year period of Communist rule leading up to the collapse and gives us the voices of those who lived through it, from democratic activists to Party members, from anti-Semites to Holocaust survivors, from Gorbachev to Yeltsin to Sakharov. An extraordinary history of an empire undone, <i>Lenin’s Tomb </i>stands as essential reading for our times. <b><i><br> </i></b>