title: Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
author:  Paul R. Gregory 
description: <b>From <i>Newsweek</i></b><br>Since the Soviet archives yielded up vast numbers of newly declassified documents in the 1990s, scholars have been sifting through them to find previously unknown stories or new details that cast well-known events in a new light. <i>Lenin's Brain and Other Tales From the Soviet Archives</i> by Paul R. Gregory draws on the author's experiences presiding over a team of scholars who have mined the Hoover Institution's extensive collection of documents from Soviet state and party archives. The result is an enticingly short (164 pages) sampler of stories from the archives that offer a glimpse into how the Soviet system worked in all its chilling inhumanity, not just under Stalin but also under his successors. This slim book is just the right antidote to the often daunting studies most scholars produce after working in the archives. The hefty books certainly serve their purpose. But Gregory has wisely chosen to reach out to a broader audience by providing a highly accessible primer on the deadly workings of the state that proclaimed itself the workers' paradise. In the process he provides a timely reminder of how quickly a utopian vision can be transformed into a nightmarish reality. --Copyright @ 2008 Newsweek, Inc.
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  **the FATAL EGGS**
  
  
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  **AND OTHER SOVIET SATIRE 1918-1963**
  
  
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  # **the FATAL EGGS**
  
  
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  **AND OTHER SOVIET SATIRE 1918-1963**
  
  
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  **_Edited and Translated by_**  
   **MIRRA GINSBURG**
  
  
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  Copyright © 1964, 1965 by Mirra Ginsburg
  
  
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  “The Fatal Eggs” 