The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution - Couverture souple

Slezkine, Yuri

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ISBN 10 : 0691192723 ISBN 13 : 9780691192727

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Yuri Slezkine is the Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Jewish Century (Princeton), which won the National Jewish Book Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0691192723
• ISBN 13: 9780691192727
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 1128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible