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Lenin's tomb : the last days of the Soviet empire

Remnick, David. (Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 0679751254 :
  • ISBN: 97806797512510 :
  • Physical Description: xii, 588 p., [22] p. of plates : ill ; 21 cm.
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  • Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1994.

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General Note:
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1993.
"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [561]-564) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: By right of memory. The forest coup ; A Stalinist childhood ; To be preserved, forever ; The return of history ; Widows of revolution ; Ninotchka ; The doctors' plot and beyond ; Memorial ; Written on the water -- Democratic vistas. Masquerade ; The double thinkers ; Party men ; Poor folk ; The revolution underground ; Postcards from the empire ; The island ; Bread and circuses ; The last gulag -- Revolutionary days. "Tomorrow there will be a battle" ; Lost illusions ; The October Revolution ; May Day! May Day! ; The ministry of love ; Black September ; The tower ; The general line ; Citizens -- "First as tragedy, then as farce" -- The trial of the old regime.
Awards Note:
Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, 1994
Subject: Communism -- Soviet Union -- History
Soviet Union -- History
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991

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