premise: 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.
hypothesis: Remnicks newest sequal was written very well