The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
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The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
By (Author) Yuri Slezkine
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
31st October 2017
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
947.08410922
Physical Properties
Hardback
1128
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
1503g
Description
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, an
Reviews
"Mammoth and profusely researched... A work begging to be debated; Slezkine aggregates mountains of detail for an enthralling account of the rise and fall of the revolutionary generation."--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
Author Bio
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.
