The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution

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The epic story of an enormous Soviet 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, Yur

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"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 Choice, Aug 24, 2017"
"One of The Spectator 2017 Books of the Year"
"One of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017"
"One of The Times Literary Supplements Books of the Year 2017"
"One of The Guardians Best Books of 2017"
"One of Open Letters Monthlys Our Year in Reading 2017"
"One of the Economist.com "Wise Words 2017 Books of the Year" in History"
"One of the Millions.com A Year in Reading 2017: Stephen Dodson"
"One of Worlds 2017 Books of the Year in History"
"One of London Review Bookshops Best History Books, Christmas 2017"
"Selected for Le Mondes Monde des livres 2017 (chosen by Nicolas Weill)"
"One of The Australians Books of the Year 2017 (chosen by Louis Nowra)"
"One of the Times Colonist Favorite Books of 2017 (chosen by Adrian Dix)"
"One of Mosaic's Best Books of 2018 (Ruth Wisse)"

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.