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The House of Government - A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
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The House of Government - A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
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On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story
of an enormous 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 true story of the
residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top
Communist officials and their families lived before they were
destroyed in Stalin's purges. A vivid account of the personal and
public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with
their conversion to Communism and ends with their children's loss
of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the
House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment,
was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest
residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished
apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie
theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range.
Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building's residents
lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some
eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by
one, to prison or their deaths. Drawing on letters, diaries, and
interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House
of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism,
architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions,
millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an
unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union
itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of
the disappeared.
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