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...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...
That revolution was taken over in July 1989 by the Siberian coal miners when they began a strike that shook the economy and the communist bosses. The grimy miners, Remnick reports, were forging a link between the urban intellectuals, the nationalist movements in non-Russian republics, and "the political uprising of workers across the country...
...more than 20 types of medicinal plants, some of which bore marks that may be the imprints of human molars. Most intriguing of all, the scientists unearthed wooden foundations and crude timbers that Dillehay believes supported an oval, tentlike dwelling similar to late Pleistocene shelters found on the Siberian plains. Says he: "We know these people exploited a wide variety of resources stretching from Monte Verde all the way to the coast. They used wood, ate plants, fashioned stone tools and from time to time captured game animals, such as mastodons and paleollamas...
...than does his nominal chief Yeltsin -- and has political ambitions of his own. Of course if Yeltsin is impeached he will automatically become President. If troops do go into the streets and take sides in the power struggle, that could trigger an avalanche of strikes by miners in the Siberian Kuzbas and Vorkuta regions. Civil war is a remote but not unthinkable possibility...
Taranovsky wrote extensively. One of his better known books is Essays on Mandelstam, about the poet Osip Mandelstam, whose works were banned by Stalin and who died in a Siberian concentration camp...