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010 _a 2016049071
020 _a9780691176949 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
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100 1 _aSlezkine, Yuri,
_d1956-
245 1 4 _aThe House of Government :
_ba saga of the Russian Revolution /
_cYuri Slezkine.
264 1 _aPrinceton ;
_aOxford :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2017]
300 _axv,1104 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 2 _a"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 550 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"--Provided by publisher.
651 0 _aMoscow (Russia)
_xPolitics and government
_y20th century.
650 0 _aCommunists
_zRussia (Federation)
_zMoscow
_vBiography.
650 0 _aApartment dwellers
_zRussia (Federation)
_zMoscow
_vBiography.
650 0 _aVictims of state-sponsored terrorism
_zRussia (Federation)
_zMoscow
_vBiography.
651 0 _aMoscow (Russia)
_vBiography.
650 0 _aApartment houses
_zRussia (Federation)
_zMoscow
_xHistory
_y20th century.
651 0 _aMoscow (Russia)
_xBuildings, structures, etc.
650 0 _aPolitical purges
_zSoviet Union
_xHistory.
650 0 _aState-sponsored terrorism
_zSoviet Union
_xHistory.
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xPolitics and government
_y1936-1953.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aHISTORY / Revolutionary.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aHISTORY / Social History.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism.
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