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Lenin's Embalmers

1 rating: 5.0

A book by Ilya Zbarsky

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Author: Ilya Zbarsky

Publisher: Harvill Press

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An odd, but interesting, book

Mar 20, 2001

by frankiethek
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

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I had never heard about this book until I saw it sitting on a shelf at a small bookstore. The title intrigued me, so I purchased it. While a lot of the work, at least initially, discusses the embalming of Lenin's corpse, there was a considerable amount of material about life during the purges of Stalin. The author was a witness to many events, albeit from a priviledged position in the Soviet hierarchy, and his recounting of the "show trials" and the terror of the "knock in the middle of the night" is revealed explicitly. There is also some recounting of other Communist leaders being embalmed by Russian experts, the section concerning the work on Ho Chi Minh during the height of the American bombing of North Vietnam being particularly interesting. Read this book to learn many different and interesting things about life under Stalin, and also the early days of the USSR.

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