Lenin’s Tomb

Part One Of Two Parts In the tradition of John Reed’s classic TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, this Pulitzer Prize winning account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Written when the euphoria that followed the coup that brought Yeltsin to power had faded and before the despair set in, this book chronicles the last days of one of the cruelest regimes in human history. Having lived in Moscow and traveled throughout the republics of the last empire, Remnick is convinced that there will be no return to the past. A book of history and of hope, this gripping first reading of events is invaluable for understanding the always-influential Russia.