EAN: 9780691192727

HOUSE OF GOVERNMENT - YURI SLEZKINE KARTONIERT ...

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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