Dec 5, 2018
99 Books: #64, Lenin’s Tomb
Started the 1994 Pulitzer for General Nonfiction, David Remnick’s Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. This is the 37th of 99 books. 576 pages.
Tanks in Red Square, August 1991. Wikipedia.
The story opens with the August 1991 coup attempt against Gorbachev and its impact on a team exhuming the remains of 15,000 Polish army officers executed by Soviets in 1940 in the Katyn massacre.