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.
An engrossing and essential addition to the human and political
literature of our time." —The New York Times
The most eloquent chronicle of the Soviet empire's demise published
to date.... It is hard to conceive of a work that might surpass
it."—Francine du Plessix Gray, Washington Post Book World
"An eloquent and riveting oral history of an epochal moment of
change." —Michael Ignatieff, The Los Angeles Times
"Remnick ... has achieved a very rare feat: to make the reader feel
he has been present himself at a great turning point in history. It
is a stunning book, moving and vivid from the first page to last."
—Robert A. Caro
"Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to
witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will
take you there." —Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
An engrossing and essential addition to the human and political
literature of our time." -The New York Times
The most eloquent chronicle of the Soviet empire's demise published
to date.... It is hard to conceive of a work that might surpass
it."-Francine du Plessix Gray, Washington Post Book
World
"An eloquent and riveting oral history of an epochal moment of
change." -Michael Ignatieff, The Los Angeles Times
"Remnick ... has achieved a very rare feat: to make the reader feel
he has been present himself at a great turning point in history. It
is a stunning book, moving and vivid from the first page to last."
-Robert A. Caro
"Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to
witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will
take you there." -Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
In January 1988, Remnick began a tour as a reporter at the Moscow bureau of the Washington Post just in time for a front row seat to the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Communist Party. Assignments brought him into contact with everyone from elite, old-guard communists and neo-Stalinists to liberal democrats and leaders of the reform movement. Remnick recounts the particulars of these interactions in this intimate and personal account of one of the century's climactic events. His chronicle includes interesting vignettes, and his depiction of the abortive 1991 attempt to overthrow Gorbachev is compelling. Nevertheless, perspective and a sense of the monumental are hidden in ponderous, sometimes redundant detail. Of passing interest, this is suitable for popular collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/92.-- James R. Kuhlman, Univ. of Alabama Lib., Tuscaloosa
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