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Title Description
In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving illumination . . . Remnick is the witness for us all."--Wall Street Journal.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Reviewer: Richard Koffler | December 16, 2001 |
| Prichard is boring, monotonous and nasal. |
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Reviewer: Kent Mc Cune (see other books I've reviewed) | October 10, 2001 |
| The flow of the story is a little weak in parts and a little more detail than I would prefer, but the writer's personal knowledge and insight into the character of Russia is very valuable.
Seriously recommended overall. |
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Reviewer: Joseph A. Harris (see other books I've reviewed) | July 10, 2001 |
| LENIN'S TOMB, tales of the hesitant steps of Russia's democratization, takes a butterfly's approach to discovery by rarely staying in the same time or place very long. In a couple of sentences we went from 1953 to 1938, and then back to 1986; in a discussion of Stalin, Boris Yeltsin pops up. However, when the author focuses for awhile, his well written chimera of observations and interviews shines. Since the author and his sources all speak in the first person, the reader misses his duty to change the voice somehow to help us see the quotation marks, but otherwise keeps a clear delivery and good pace. The author's dry sense of humor provides a punch to his stories of a land still clinging to a past as dark as its bread. |
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Reviewer: Paul Goldner | June 22, 2001 |
| Terrific first hand view of the change of the Soviet state from total governmental control to a semi-democratic state. This is one of my very favorite audiobooks. |
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