false <![CDATA[Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg 113206 7 "...the most eloquent chronicle of the Soviet empire's demise." --<I>Washington Post Book World</I> <P> "...an extraordinary confluence of observation, hard work, knowledge, and reflection; a better book by a journalist on the withdrawing roar of the Soviet Union is hard to imagine." --<I>The New York Times Book Review</I> 108995 1993 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire total:294|5:129|4:114|3:46|2:5|1:0| 294 1249 466 43 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 5 2 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 06:51:45 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 06:25:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 4 0 false Fri Aug 07 04:25:03 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 04:32:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 5 0 false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Mon Sep 21 08:20:59 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 08:29:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 4 0 false Mon Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 17 22:03:14 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 17 17:21:30 -0800 2008 2 more...]]> 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 4 0 false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 05 07:40:40 -0800 2009 Thu May 14 20:27:44 -0700 2009
Like I do with most non-fiction, I struggled to keep a solid pace with this book; but unlike most non-fiction, I was assiduous, and often eager, in...more...]]> 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 5 0 false Wed Sep 23 14:46:59 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 14:50:28 -0700 2009
I'm reading lots of books about the fall of the USSR right now, and this one is an engaging complement to the more academic works, with Remnick weaving in the experiences of individuals into the histo...more...]]> 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sun Jan 18 16:48:44 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 16:50:14 -0800 2009 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 3 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jul 10 07:05:17 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 07:06:03 -0700 2009 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 5 0 false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jun 26 07:39:36 -0700 2007 Sat Feb 16 12:11:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 3 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Mar 26 17:45:38 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 17:46:37 -0700 2009 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 5 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Wed Dec 24 09:29:11 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 09:29:39 -0800 2008 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 3 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 04 11:24:21 -0700 2007 Sat May 05 17:05:28 -0700 2007 There are interesting interviews with die-hard Stalinists and elusive henchmen of ...more...]]> 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 4 0 false Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 06 13:38:29 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 05 00:15:16 -0700 2008
As a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post he managed to look at the regime in a personal way.
Under the fiery socialist frown of gigantic Lenin statues he noodles around more as a Moscovite than as a foreigner.
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The book has changed my life because it is about my life. It covers the history of the Soviet Union/Russia prior and after the fall of the Wall, and then it provides background in flashbacks.

It's ...more...]]> 113206 0679751254 9780679751250 286 42 Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645446m/113206.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113206.Lenin_s_Tomb_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire 4 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sun Feb 03 13:53:44 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 07:00:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=113206