The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
Hardcover
Paperback
- Price:
- $24.95/拢20.00
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- Published:
- Jun 18, 2019
- Copyright:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 1128
- Size:
- 6.13 x 9.25 in.
- 416 b/w illus. 2 maps.
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The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy鈥檚 War and Peace, Grossman鈥檚 Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn鈥檚 The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine鈥檚 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鈥檚 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.
Awards and Recognition
- Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers
- Honorable Mention for the 2019 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame
- Winner of the 2018 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association
- Winner of the 2018 Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
- Shortlisted for the 2018 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
- Selected as a New York Times Editors鈥 Choice, Aug 24, 2017
- One of The Spectator 2017 快色直播 of the Year
- One of The New York Times 100 Notable 快色直播 of 2017
- One of The Times Literary Supplement鈥檚 快色直播 of the Year 2017
- One of The Guardian鈥檚 Best 快色直播 of 2017
- One of Open Letters Monthly鈥檚 鈥淥ur Year in Reading 2017
- One of the Economist.com "Wise Words 2017 快色直播 of the Year" in History
- One of the Millions.com 鈥淎 Year in Reading 2017: Stephen Dodson鈥
- One of World鈥檚 2017 快色直播 of the Year in 鈥淗istory鈥
- One of London Review 快色直播hop鈥檚 Best History 快色直播, Christmas 2017
- Selected for Le Monde鈥檚 鈥淢onde des livres鈥 2017 (chosen by Nicolas Weill)
- One of The Australian鈥檚 快色直播 of the Year 2017 (chosen by Louis Nowra)
- One of the Times Colonist Favorite 快色直播 of 2017 (chosen by Adrian Dix)
- One of Mosaic's Best 快色直播 of 2018 (Ruth Wisse)