Lenin's Tomb : The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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. Number of Words in Auth: 2 Formats : EPUB Number of Formats : 1 Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : isbn:978-0-8041-7358-2 Single Author : David Remnick Original Source : New Epubs from KAT Wk 1B Sorted Author by LN, FN: Remnick, David Title Length : 012 Title Parm D : Lenin's Tomb Title Parm G : Lenin's Tomb Num of Aut : 1 Title Parm B : ( Record ID : 9777 Uncomma Author : David Remnick Title Parm A : Lenin's Tomb 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. Chronicles the collapse of the Soviet empire, from the rise of glasnost through the final lowering of the Soviet flag, to the start of the post-communist age