Chemical Soup
James Meek: Embalming Lenin’s body, 18 March 1999
Lenin's Embalmers
by Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson.
Harvill, 215 pp., £12.99, October 1998,1 86046 515 3 Show More
by Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson.
Harvill, 215 pp., £12.99, October 1998,
“... thought and inquiry – something Lenin and most of the early Bolsheviks never thought to do. Ilya Zbarsky’s poignant, laconic memoir is partly an account of how his opportunist father Boris came to head the laboratory responsible for keeping Lenin’s body in perfect condition. It is also an account of the fate of Soviet science under Stalin and ... ”