TY - BOOK ID - 19300303 TI - The house of government : a saga of the Russian Revolution PY - 2017 SN - 9781400888177 1400888174 9780691176949 0691176949 9780691192727 0691192723 PB - Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Apartment dwellers KW - Apartment dwellers. KW - Apartment houses KW - Apartment houses. KW - Buildings. KW - Communists KW - Communists. KW - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern. KW - HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics. KW - HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. KW - HISTORY / Revolutionary. KW - HISTORY / Social History. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism. KW - Political purges KW - Political purges. KW - Politics and government. KW - State-sponsored terrorism KW - State-sponsored terrorism. KW - Victims of state-sponsored terrorism KW - Victims of state-sponsored terrorism. KW - History KW - Dom na Naberezhnoĭ (Moscow, Russia). KW - Moscow (Russia) KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Soviet Union KW - Soviet Union. KW - Buildings, structures, etc. KW - Politics and government KW - History of Eastern Europe KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Russia KW - Dom na Naberezhnoĭ (Moscow, Russia) KW - Persons KW - Apartment renters KW - Dwellers, Apartment KW - Renters, Apartment KW - State-sponsored terrorism victims KW - Victims of state terrorism KW - Victims of terrorism KW - Apartment buildings KW - Multi-family housing KW - Multifamily housing KW - Multiple dwellings KW - Architecture, Domestic KW - Dwellings KW - Lustration (Political purges) KW - Political parties KW - Political party purges KW - Purges, Political KW - Government violence KW - Governmental violence KW - State-sponsored violence KW - State terrorism KW - Violence, Governmental KW - Violence, State-sponsored KW - Political atrocities KW - Terrorism KW - History. KW - Purges KW - Moskva (Russia) KW - Москвa (Russia) KW - Moscou (Russia) KW - Moskau (Russia) KW - Moscú (Russia) KW - Moskova (Russia) KW - Moscha (Russia) KW - Moszkva (Russia) KW - Moskav (Russia) KW - Moskwa (Russia) KW - Moscow (R.S.F.S.R.) KW - Mosike (Russia) KW - Mo-ssu-kʻo (Russia) KW - 莫斯科 (Russia) KW - Pravitelʹstvo Moskvy (Russia) KW - Правительство Москвы (Russia) KW - Maskva (Russia) KW - Mosḳṿe (Russia) KW - Mosca (Russia) KW - Moscova (Russia) KW - Māsko (Russia) KW - Moscow KW - Масква (Russia) KW - Μόσχα (Russia) KW - Moscfa (Russia) KW - Mūskū (Russia) KW - موسکو (Russia) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19300303 AB - On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe 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. 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. ER -