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Lenin's Tomb

David Remnick

How did a regime that looked permanent collapse, and what did ordinary Soviet citizens do and remember as it fell?

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At a glance

Author
David Remnick

Why read it

  • You will see how a bold attempt to rescue a failing system by reforming it can still end in collapse
  • You will learn how a regime keeps people afraid, and what changes when they decide to stand up
  • You will be ready to doubt the easy claim that a whole nation knows nothing of civil society

Who it is for

  • Someone who lived through the Cold War and wonders how it ended
  • Someone watching an authoritarian state and wondering how long it can last
  • Someone curious how a country's memory of terror shapes its politics

Contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. PART I
  3. BY RIGHT OF MEMORY
  4. CHAPTER 1
  5. THE FOREST COUP
  6. CHAPTER 2
  7. A STALINIST CHILDHOOD
  8. CHAPTER 3
  9. TO BE PRESERVED, FOREVER
  10. CHAPTER 4
  11. THE RETURN OF HISTORY
  12. CHAPTER 5
  13. WIDOWS OF REVOLUTION
  14. CHAPTER 6
  15. NINOTCHKA
  16. CHAPTER 7
  17. THE DOCTORS’ PLOT AND BEYOND
  18. CHAPTER 8
  19. MEMORIAL
  20. CHAPTER 9
  21. WRITTEN ON THE WATER
  22. PART II
  23. DEMOCRATIC VISTAS
  24. CHAPTER 10
  25. MASQUERADE
  26. CHAPTER 11
  27. THE DOUBLE THINKERS
  28. CHAPTER 12
  29. PARTY MEN
  30. CHAPTER 13
  31. POOR FOLK
  32. CHAPTER 14
  33. THE REVOLUTION UNDERGROUND
  34. CHAPTER 15
  35. POSTCARDS FROM THE EMPIRE
  36. CHAPTER 16
  37. THE ISLAND
  38. CHAPTER 17
  39. BREAD AND CIRCUSES
  40. CHAPTER 18
  41. THE LAST GULAG
  42. PART III
  43. REVOLUTIONARY DAYS
  44. CHAPTER 19
  45. “TOMORROW THERE WILL BE A BATTLE”
  46. CHAPTER 20
  47. LOST ILLUSIONS
  48. CHAPTER 21
  49. THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION
  50. CHAPTER 22
  51. MAY DAY! MAY DAY!
  52. CHAPTER 23
  53. THE MINISTRY OF LOVE
  54. CHAPTER 24
  55. BLACK SEPTEMBER
  56. CHAPTER 25
  57. THE TOWER
  58. CHAPTER 26
  59. THE GENERAL LINE
  60. CHAPTER 27

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