Title: The House of Government
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Communists, Apartment dwellers, State-sponsored terrorism, Buildings, structures, Victims of state-sponsored terrorism, Politics and government, Dom na Naberezhnoĭ (Moscow, Russia), Apartment houses, History, Biography, Political purges, Elite (social sciences), Soviet union, biography, Soviet union, history, 1925-1953, Moscow (russia), history, Soviet union, politics and government, Buildings, Communists -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Biography, Apartment dwellers -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Biography, Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Biography, Apartment houses -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History -- 20th century, Political purges -- Soviet Union -- History, State-sponsored terrorism -- Soviet Union -- History, Moscow (Russia) -- Politics and government -- 20th century, Moscow (Russia) -- Biography, Moscow (Russia) -- Buildings, structures, etc, Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1936-1953, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, HISTORY / Revolutionary, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
Places: Russia (Federation), Moscow (Russia), Moscow, Soviet Union
Time periods: 20th century, 1936-1953