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Title: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick ISBN: 0-679-75125-4 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.74 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Incredibly done: the quintessencial Russia book
Comment: It's hard to imagine there was any dissention from the Pulitzer committee over "Lenin's Tomb". This book excellently combines top-notch journalism and fine, precise, descriptive writing for an increbidly enjoyable and informative read. Considering how most such "good for you" books are long slogs about as exciting as bran, "Lenin's Tomb" was a surprising pleasure.
I came to this book with minimal knowledge of Russia in general, let alone the Soviet transition, and disliking what I had encountered of Russia's culture and people. "Lenin's Tomb" manages to explain the basics to ignorant laypeople like myself without condescending or dragging through too much history. What you need to understand what was happening, Remnick provides, no more and no less.
"Lenin's Tomb" proved an eye opener about the Soviet experience, but it also reflects on the larger ramifications of Communist autocracy. So many of the explorations of the Soviet erosion of society and culture gave me a sense of Deja Vu compared with China, only China has perhaps been less scathed by the shorter span of its bureaucratic red terror. Also, while "Lenin's Tomb" did not make me like Russia or Russians any more, it did present the context of how and why people can be a certain way, so that I now hold it against them less.
"Lenin's Tomb" is almost novelesque in its readability, a page-turner and easily beach or plane fare. I doff my hat to Remnick's ability to carve dense political stuff into an involving, compelling narrative. Perhaps Russia scholars would find points to criticize, but from a journalistic perspective, "Lenin's Tomb" is the book all of us wish we could write.
Rating: 5
Summary: Russia Revealed
Comment: Now that we are a decade removed from the fall of the Soviet Empire, it is a wonderful to look back and read a fabulous primary source about the events. Remnick, the Moscow correspondant for The Washington Post, during the late 80's and early 90's (and since the editor of the New Yorker, which was a well deserved honor for a fabulous journalist, if I may say so myself) was right on the scene when the incredible collapse of Communism took place. He interviewed hundreds, if not thousands, of people who had lived through the Soviet regime and who played some role, regarldless of how small and seemingly insignificant, in the transformation of the nation, and this research paid huge dividends. He combines all these personal stories into one great book that explains and analyzes why and how this happened. It is very well written, and while being comprehensive remains comprehensible. It is a wonderful book and anyone who is interested in Russia (or would like to become so), likes history in general, or enjoys good semi-academic writing this book is for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Eyewitness to History
Comment: Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick chronicles the point at which the rot at the center of the Soviet system became more powerful than the Communist Party's iron fist. Remnick is a storyteller telling the story of a riveting period in history. As he writes, "To live anywhere between Bonn and Moscow in 1989 was to be witness to a year-long polical fantasy. You had the feeling you could run into history on the way to the bank or the seashore." Lucky for us, Remnick spent 1989 (as well as the years before and after) in Moscow.
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Title: Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia by David Remnick ISBN: 0375750231 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Russia : A Concise History by Ronald Hingley ISBN: 0500276277 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Moscow & St. Petersburg: Russia's Heart and Soul, Second Edition (Odyssey Illustrated Guide) by Masha Nordbye ISBN: 9622177093 Publisher: Odyssey Publications, Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg ISBN: 0679744991 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Black Earth: A Journey through Russia after the Fall by Andrew Meier ISBN: 0393051781 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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