Lenin's Embalmers

In recounting the long untold story of the laboratory charged with maintaining Lenin's deteriorating corpse, Ilya Zbarsky also tells his family's story: the scientific repute and political privilege this onerous responsibility brought them, and later the danger they faced, as the paranoia and violence of the Stalinist era grew.

Title: Lenin's Embalmers

Author: Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson

Genre: Non-Fiction

Condition: Very Good