Volume 38, Number 21 · December 19, 1991
Dead Souls
By David Remnick
BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ESSAY
Katyn: The Untold Story of Stalin's Polish Massacre
by Allen Paul
Scribner's, 390 pp., $24.95
The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons
by Mikhail Gorbachev
HarperCollins, 127 pp., $18.00
Gorbachev
by Gerd Ruge, translated by Peter Tegel
Chatto and Windus, 260 pp., £15.99
Memoirs: The Gorbachev Enigma
by Yegor Ligachev
To be published by Pantheon in 1992
The Future Belongs to Freedom
by Eduard Shevardnadze, translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
Free Press, 237 pp., $22.95
I Hope
by Raisa Gorbachev, translated by David Floyd
HarperCollins, 207 pp., $20.00
Raisa: The 1st First Lady of the Soviet Union
by Urda Jürgens
Summit, 157 pp., $19.95
The Second Russian Revolution Discovery Channel by Brian Lapping Associates
a six-part documentary series made for BBC Television and the, produced by Norman Percy
The Second Russian Revolution: The Struggle for Power in the Kremlin
by Angus Roxburgh
BBC Books, 218 pp., £15.95
Nizabvayemoe (Unforgettable)
by Anna Larina Bukharina
Progress Publishers, 368 pp., R290
For a New Russia
by Anatoly Sobchak
Free Press, 191 pp., $22.95
Zal Ozhidaniya (The Waiting Room)
by Vitaly Korotich
Liberty Publishing House (New York), 184 pp., $13.00
Khrushchev on Khrushchev: An Inside Account of the Man and His Era
by Sergei Khrushchev, edited and translated by William Taubman
Little, Brown, 423 pp., $24.95
Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes
dictated by Nikita Khrushchev, foreword by Strobe Talbott, translated and edited by Jerrold L. Schecter, by Vyacheslav V. Luchkov
Little, Brown, 219 pp., $19.95
Moscow Circles
by Benedict Erofeev, translated by J. R. Dorrell
Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, 188 pp., $7.95 (paper)
When Lenin died in January 1924, Bolshevik mystery displaced the last traces of historical truth. The wing of the Communist Party gathering around Stalin created a cult of Lenin, made sacred his image, and pickled his remains.
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