Name: The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
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Author: Slezkine, Yuri
ISBN: 9780691192727

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The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yuri Slezkine

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

1104

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.1x15.5x5.6 cm

Weight

1.47 kg.

ISBN13

9780691192727

Synopsis "The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution "

The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine's gripping narrative tells the chilling true story of an enormous Moscow apartment building where Soviet leaders and their families lived until hundreds of these Bolshevik true believers were led, one by one, to prison or to their deaths in Stalin's purges. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews with survivors, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, this epic story weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.