The House of Government : a saga of the Russian Revolution
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Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017].
Physical Desc
xv, 1104 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
947.0841 SLEZKI 2017
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947.0841 SLEZKI 2017
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Apartment dwellers -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Biography.
Apartment houses -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History -- 20th century.
Communists -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Biography.
Moscow (Russia) -- Biography.
Moscow (Russia) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Moscow (Russia) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
State-sponsored terrorism -- Soviet Union -- History.
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Biography.
Apartment houses -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History -- 20th century.
Communists -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Biography.
Moscow (Russia) -- Biography.
Moscow (Russia) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Moscow (Russia) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953.
State-sponsored terrorism -- Soviet Union -- History.
Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Biography.
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Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 995-1081) and index.
Description
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, Grossmans Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyns The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkines 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 Stalins 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 childrens 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 buildings 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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Slezkine, Y. (2017). The House of Government: a saga of the Russian Revolution . Princeton University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Slezkine, Yuri, 1956-. 2017. The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. Princeton University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Slezkine, Yuri, 1956-. The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution Princeton University Press, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Slezkine, Yuri. The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution Princeton University Press, 2017.
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