text: New Yorker writer Remnick 's sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Lenin 's Tomb is a compelling postscript ( Walter Laqueur , Los Angeles Times ) . Reviewers focus on Remnick 's access to political insiders , especially his extended interviews with Mikhail Gorbachev , Vladimir Zhirinovsky , and Gennady Zyuganov .
  
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  Remnicks newest sequal has had a lot of awards