Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire Free Audiobook Download by David Remnick

David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, tells the story of the last days of the Soviet empire. Lenin's Tomb is a narrative by journalist Michael Prichard on Lenin's death and then the events that followed. It is told in three parts. Part one begins with Lenin's declining health and his subsequent death in 1924. The book moves on to how it affected the second world war and Stalin's power struggle with Trotsky and Bukharin until Stalin's death in 1953. Part three reverts back to the beginnings of the communist victory when it began under Lenin's guidance.

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire tells the story of Lenin's death, Vladimir Lenin from a Marxist perspective. It is mainly about how the Soviet Union quickly fell apart after Lenin died in 1924 and turns into a dictatorship under Joseph Stalin.

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days Of The Soviet Empire is a dramatic account of the final days of the Soviet Union. With each day, Vladimir Lenin's corpse bares witness to the fearful collapse of an empire that had been in power for over 70 years. As the Soviet Union crumbles, Elena Larina must come to terms with her own personal story and decide if she should live or die. In a world where history has been reshaped by Russia's disastrous experiment in communism, it is up to the reader to decide whether it was worth it.

On October 25, 1924, the body of Joseph Stalin lay in state for its final public viewing. The occasion was Lenin's funeral, on which a vast crowd had gathered to pay their respects. Some estimates put the number of visitors at over 250,000 people. One participant recorded that when his turn came to view Lenin's body, "the sound burst from all sides like an explosion."

On November 7, 1923, Joseph Stalin and his associates Vladimir Lenin's Tomb. The following day, Lenin's remains were taken to the Kremlin Wall Necropolis where they remain today. This book is the ultimate historical account of those events, first published in 1995 and updated in 2006.

In April 1924, the Soviet Union and its leader Vladimir Lenin died. After Lenin's death, the Soviet Union and the Communist Party were thrown into disarray. The country collapsed in a matter of months, but this was not happening to Russia as a whole. Remnick examines Lenin's tomb—a complicated site that remains contested even today—to understand how Lenin's successors came to power and what they did then.