Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet EmpireWinner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the editor of The New Yorker a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin's Tomb 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

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times

From the editor of The New Yorker a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin's Tomb 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, Lenin's Tomb stands as essential reading for our times.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/26/1994
ISBN: 9780679751250
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.18w x 1.25d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner
Award: Helen Bernstein Book Award - Winner

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/11/1994
Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 51