Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet EmpireModern · History, Nonfiction, Russia
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
1994 · 588 pages · Nonfiction
62
Modern
★ 4.26 on Goodreads · 6K ratings
≈ 15 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) winner (1994). 4.26★ from 6K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
62Must-Read Score
- Critics65 out of 100 · counts 35%+26
- Readers63 out of 100 · counts 50%+36
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #61 of the 220 history books we rank
- #81 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #226 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) winner (1994)
Shortlisted
- NBCC Award (Nonfiction) finalist (1993)
Reads as
True story
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