LEADER 03574cam a22004098i 4500005 20171211102704.0 008 170519s2017 nju 000 0deng 003 hubpceuo 010 2016049071 020 9780691176949 (hardcover : acidfree paper) 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC 042 pcc 043 e-ru---e-ur--- 050 00 DK601 |b.S57 2017 082 00 947.084/10922 |223 100 1 Slezkine, Yuri, |d1956- |eauthor. 245 14 The House of Government : |ba saga of the Russian Revolution / |cYuri Slezkine. 260 Princeton ; Oxford : |bPrinceton University Press, |c2017. 300 xv, 1104 p. : |bill. ; |c23 cm. 337 unmediated 520 2 "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. 650 0 Communists |zRussia (Federation) |zMoscow |vBiography. 650 0 Apartment dwellers |zRussia (Federation) |zMoscow |vBiography. 650 0 Victims of state-sponsored terrorism |zRussia (Federation) |zMoscow |vBiography. 650 0 Apartment houses |zRussia (Federation) |zMoscow |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Political purges |zSoviet Union |xHistory. 650 0 State-sponsored terrorism |zSoviet Union |xHistory. 651 0 Moscow (Russia) |xPolitics and government |y20th century. 651 0 Moscow (Russia) |vBiography. 651 0 Moscow (Russia) |xBuildings, structures, etc. 651 0 Soviet Union |xPolitics and government |y1936-1953. 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6947_084000000000000_10922_SLE |70 |8REF |9125508OSA |bOSA |d2017-12-11 |eOSA |l0 |o947.084/10922 SLE |r2017-12-11 |w2017-12-11 |yBK |cReference 920 01 0X5zr0Yx 992 01 947_084000000000000_10922_SLE |bQVS_ZRVZZZZZZZZZZZZ_YZQXX_7EL 966 |cIn the Research Room