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Lenin's Tomb

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

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Lenin's Tomb

By: David Remnick
Narrated 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.
20th Century Europe Modern Politics & Government Russia Soviet Union Holocaust Socialism Imperialism War Capitalism
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Critic reviews

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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Fantastically researched, brilliant and engaging, could not stop listening to this audio book. Very finely narrated. Could not recommend enough.

Brilliant

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A wonderful, monumental book, but it really deserves better narration. The monotonous treatment of the material actually made me buy the real book!

The latter day Soviet Union fully revealed.

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the audio quality is not great.

the speaker is good and the book is fantastic.

Great content, good speaker.

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we are so lucky this journalist was in the USSR at this time. This was an amazing find. The narration is excellent, I can't for the life of me understand how a few people complain about the narration.

superb

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Why did a man, so eloquent and fluent behind a microphone, not narrate his outstanding book himself ?

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