House of Government

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, Yuri Slezkine's 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's 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.

Povestea epica a unei imense cladiri de apartamente sovietice in care au trait credinciosii comunisti adevarati inainte de distrugerea lor Casa guvernului este diferita de orice alta carte despre Revolutia Rusa si experimentul sovietic. Scrisa in traditia Razboiului si pacii lui Tolstoi, Viata si soarta lui Grossman si Arhipelagul Gulag al lui Soljenitsyn, naratiunea captivanta a lui Yuri Slezkine spune povestea reala ingrozitoare a unui imens bloc de apartamente din Moscova, unde au trait liderii sovietici si familiile lor pana la sute de acesti credinciosi bolsevici adevarati au fost condusi, unul cate unul, la inchisoare sau la moartea lor in epurarile lui Stalin.