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Fantastic writing & an overall tragic tale. - Goodreads Great insight into the waning USSR. - Goodreads History writing that rokks. - Goodreads Review: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet EmpireUser Review - Karl.bromley - GoodreadsFascinating. One of the most interesting books I have ever read. This history is presented through the lens of a large number of interviews the author conducts while he is a journalist in the Soviet ... Read full review Review: Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet EmpireUser Review - Doug Haskin - GoodreadsAn excellent account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the events of the failed coup against the new government. Reading this, it's hard to believe that the communist party government lasted as ... Read full review Related books
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