Lenin's Tomb

Remnick recreates the era which began with glasnost and ended with the final lowering of the Soviet flag over Red Square on Christmas night 1991. He interviews key political figures as well as the ordinary men and women who shaped the revolution. David Remnick is a prize-winning reporter who covered the Soviet Union for the "Washington Post". He is now a staff writer for "The New Yorker" and has also written for "Vanity Fair".