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  • The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
  • Written by: David Remnick
  • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
  • Length: 29 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)

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Lenin's Tomb

Written by: David Remnick
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
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Publisher's Summary

In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism.

©2015 David Remnick (P)2015 Random House Audio
Ideologies & Doctrines Russia Europe 20th Century
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What the critics say

"A moving illumination.... Remnick is the witness for us all." ( The Wall Street Journal)
"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)

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Fascinating

David Remnick has a wonderful talent of mixing simple and ordinary details to historic events that makes everything so captivatingly vivid.
Michael Prichard is a wonderful narrator. I actually listened to several parts over because I just wanted to hear it again.

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