Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

David Remnick

Dec 2015 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Michael Prichard

About this audiobook

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. 
 

Ratings and reviews

Such remarkable journalism. The author lives in the Soviet Union during this unstable time, which gives him first-hand knowledge, along with the ability to interview sources directly, whether they are ordinary people, or state officials and leaders. It is lyrically written and reflective. As I listened to it, I almost felt like he was sitting in a room with me, telling me how this great superpower collapsed. At the heart of it is a reflection on Lenin, Stalin, communism- the State they created.

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About the author

David Remnick was a reporter for The Washington Post for ten years, including four in Moscow. He joined The New Yorker as a writer in 1992 and has been the magazine’s editor since 1998. His most recent book is The Bridge, a biography of Barack Obama. His previous book, King of the World, a biography of Muhammad Ali, was selected by Time as the top nonfiction book of the year. Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire won a Pulitzer Prize.