The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution 1st Edition Yuri Slezkine 1400888174 9781400888177

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• ISBN 10: 1400888174
• ISBN 13: 9781400888177
• Author: Yuri Slezkine

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 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.

Table of contents:

PART I | ANTICIPATION

1. The Swamp

2. The Preachers

3. The Faith

PART II | FULFILLMENT

4. The Real Day

5. The Last Battle

6. The New City

7. The Great Disappointment

8. The Party Line

BOOK TWO | AT HOME

PART III | THE SECOND COMING

9. The Eternal House

10. The New Tenants

11. The Economic Foundations

12. The Virgin Lands

13. The Ideological Substance

PART IV | THE REIGN OF THE SAINTS

14. The New Life

15. The Days Off

16. The Houses of Rest

17. The Next of Kin

18. The Center of the World

19. The Pettiness of Existence

20. The Thought of Death

21. The Happy Childhood

22. The New Men

BOOK THREE | ON TRIAL

PART V | THE LAST JUDGMENT

23. The Telephone Call

24. The Admission of Guilt

25. The Valley of the Dead

26. The Knock on the Door

27. The Good People

28. The Supreme Penalty

PART VI | THE AFTERLIFE

29. The End of Childhood

30. The Persistence of Happiness

31. The Coming of War

32. The Return

33. The End

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