Lenin's Embalmers by Samuel Hutchinson, Ilya Zbarsky

Lenin's Embalmers

Samuel Hutchinson, Ilya Zbarsky with Barbara Bray

215 pages first pub 1997 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history tense slow-paced
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Professor Ilya Zbarski mummified Lenin two months after his death to maintain the Soviet founder's body in perpetuity. Between 1924 and the fall of communism in 1991, hundreds of millions of visitors paid their respects to the embalmed bodies of L...

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