SOCIAL SCIENCES

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

by David Remnick

Vintage. 1994. 588p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780679751250. pap. $18; ebk. ISBN 9780804173582.

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New Yorker editor Remnick was Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post during the time Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin were in power. Eloquent, with personal stories and solid reporting, this book frames the end of the Soviet Union. (LJ 6/15/93)

Reviewed by Laurie Unger Skinner , Jan 01, 2017

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