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    Lenin's Tomb

    The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    Author David Remnick
    Read by Michael Prichard
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    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. 
     
    • WINNER | 1994
      Pulitzer Prize
    © Brigitte Lacombe
    DAVID REMNICK has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and before that was a staff writer for the magazine for six years. He was previously The Washington Post’s correspondent in the Soviet Union. He is the author of several books, including King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, named the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine in 1998, and Lenin’s Tomb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. View titles by David Remnick
    An engrossing and essential addition to the human and political literature of our time." —The New York Times

    The most eloquent chronicle of the Soviet empire's demise published to date.... It is hard to conceive of a work that might surpass it."—Francine du Plessix Gray, Washington Post Book World

    "An eloquent and riveting oral history of an epochal moment of change." —Michael Ignatieff, The Los Angeles Times

    "Remnick ... has achieved a very rare feat: to make the reader feel he has been present himself at a great turning point in history. It is a stunning book, moving and vivid from the first page to last." —Robert A. Caro

    "Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there." —Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

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    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. 
     

    Awards

    • WINNER | 1994
      Pulitzer Prize

    Author

    © Brigitte Lacombe
    DAVID REMNICK has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and before that was a staff writer for the magazine for six years. He was previously The Washington Post’s correspondent in the Soviet Union. He is the author of several books, including King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, named the top nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine in 1998, and Lenin’s Tomb, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. View titles by David Remnick

    Praise

    An engrossing and essential addition to the human and political literature of our time." —The New York Times

    The most eloquent chronicle of the Soviet empire's demise published to date.... It is hard to conceive of a work that might surpass it."—Francine du Plessix Gray, Washington Post Book World

    "An eloquent and riveting oral history of an epochal moment of change." —Michael Ignatieff, The Los Angeles Times

    "Remnick ... has achieved a very rare feat: to make the reader feel he has been present himself at a great turning point in history. It is a stunning book, moving and vivid from the first page to last." —Robert A. Caro

    "Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there." —Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

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    • Lenin's Tomb
      Lenin's Tomb
      The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
      David Remnick
      9780804173582
      Ebook
      Vintage
      Apr 02, 2014
    • Lenin's Tomb
      Lenin's Tomb
      The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
      David Remnick
      9780679751250
      $23.00 US
      Paperback
      Vintage
      Apr 26, 1994
    • Lenin's Tomb
      Lenin's Tomb
      The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
      David Remnick
      9780804173582
      Ebook
      Vintage
      Apr 02, 2014
    • Lenin's Tomb
      Lenin's Tomb
      The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
      David Remnick
      9780679751250
      $23.00 US
      Paperback
      Vintage
      Apr 26, 1994

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