Title Profile & Character Information

Lenin's Tomb
Annotation
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
1994  Helen Bernstein Book Award
1994  Pulitzer Prize
1994  American Library Association Notable Books

GenreNonFiction
History
Political
Sociology
TopicsSoviet history
Soviet culture
Soviet break-up
Soviet politics
Russian politics and government
Russian history
European history
World history
Marxism
Communism
Sociology
Social history
SettingSoviet Union
Russia