Lenin’s Tomb (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Remnick
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Current history
- Time of Work: 1988-1992
- Setting: The former Soviet Union
- Principal Characters: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Andrei Sakharov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Kryuchkov, Boris Pugo, Dmitri Yazov
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: History, Communism or communists, Revolutionaries, Capitalism, Reformers, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Secret service
- Locales: Soviet Union
In 1983, the French journalist Jean Francois Revel (Comment les democraties finissent; How Democracies Perish, 1984) predicted that democratic societies, with their tolerance of internal dissent, would prove no match for the ruthless single-mindedness of the totalitarian Soviet Union. As an analyst of the short term, Revel made sense; as a prophet, he could not have been more wrong. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, it was not democracy that perished but Soviet and Eastern European Communism. Barely a decade after Revel’s work was published, David Remnick, a young...
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