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Lenin's tomb : the last days of the Soviet Empire / David Remnick.

Remnick, David, author.
1993
DK288 .R46 1993
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Title
Lenin's tomb : the last days of the Soviet Empire / David Remnick.
Author
Remnick, David, author.
ISBN
0679423761
9780679423768
9780679751250
0679751254
Published
New York : Random House, [1993]
Copyright
©1993
Language
English
Description
xii, 576 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
DK288 .R46 1993
System Control No.
(OCoLC)27144279
Summary
A moment in history, the collapse of the Soviet empire, is examined, along with the restoration of truth, the truth about the brutal Soviet past and the bleak Soviet present.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-552) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Part 1. 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
Part 2. 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
Part 3. 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
Part 4. "First as tragedy, then as farce"
Part 5. The trial of the old regime.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction, 1994.
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