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...TITLE: LENIN'S TOMB: THE LAST DAYS OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE...
...BOTTOM LINE: Great journalism answers Lenin's question: Who did what to whom...
...efforts resulted in superb reporting, first for his newspaper and now at greater length in Lenin's Tomb. His book provides both an intellectual history of the fall of the U.S.S.R. and a travelogue through its terminal illnesses, from corruption in the Kremlin to the deadly pollution of the Urals and the haunted desolation of Kolyma, center of the Siberian gulags. The book's powerful sense of place and its clarity about events that confused many of the participants will shame those who dismiss books written by reporters as "mere journalism...
...take Gorbachev at his word were the intellectuals and opinion leaders who had long known that the Soviet structure was crumbling but had kept their head down and mouth shut. They began speaking and writing about the old taboos: the crimes of Stalin, of the KGB and even of Lenin. Soon the daily and weekly press was bursting with stupefying revelations and admissions. It was "wonderful for the intelligentsia," the writer Tatyana Tolstaya told Remnick, but most of all "it is a revolution for the proletariat...
CINEMA Made in America is a deft comedy. MUSIC Chris Isaak is again steeped in cowboy blues. TELEVISION Two men dying of AIDS film a searing account of their last days. BOOKS Lenin's Tomb is a superb account of the fall of the U.S.S.R. THEATER Later Life shows A.R. Gurney at his wistful best...