Pulitzer Prize General Non Fiction Winner
Lenin's Tomb
by David Remnick
Summary
A first-person chronicle of the Soviet Union's final years, drawn from Remnick's reporting in Moscow as the Washington Post's correspondent during glasnost and collapse. He moves between Politburo offices, dissident apartments, and provincial towns to capture how a superpower came apart in the eyes of those who lived it. The book combines political analysis with vivid portraits of survivors, victims, and apparatchiks navigating the wreckage of communism.
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Historical Context & Significance
Remnick was a reporter for the Washington Post in Moscow; the book is prized for its "boots-on-the-ground" view of the fall of the Berlin Wall.