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Description
In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving illumination . . . Remnick is the witness for... read more
First Sentence
On a dreary summer's day, Colonel Aleksandr Tretetsky of the Soviet Military Prosecutor's Office arrived at his latest work site: a series of mass graves in a birch forest twenty miles outside of the city of Kalinin.
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Authors & Contributors
- David Remnick (Author)
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize (1994: Genreal Nonfiction)
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