
Author/Contributor(s): | Zbarsky, Ilya ; Hutchinson, Samuel ; Bray, Barbara |
Publisher: | Harvill Press |
Date: | 01/10/2003 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | USED – Very good. An unmarked copy with tight binding and some moderate shelf wear. |
Between 1924 and the fall of communism in 1991, many millions of visitors paid their respects to the embalmed body of Lenin in Red Square. This is the story of the mausoleum, told by the only survivor of the family that plunged the founder of the Soviet Union into a solution of glycerine and potassium acetate to preserve him forever.