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- House of Government : a Saga of the Russian Revolution
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- Princeton University Press
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- 2017
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- English
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- Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science, Political Science
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- Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Revolutionary, Social History, Historical
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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, 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.
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House of Government : a Saga of the Russian Revolution
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Hardcover
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English
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Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Revolutionary, Social History, Historical
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2017
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Yes
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Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science, Political Science
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1128 Pages
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9.5 in
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2.6 in
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6.6 in
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"This panoramic history plotted as an epic family tragedy describes the lives of Bolshevik revolutionaries who were swallowed up by the cause they believed in. The story is as intricate as any Russian novel, and the chapters on the Stalinist Terror are the most vivid." -- New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice), "Slezkine uses the House of Government, a huge apartment block built in the late 1920s on the banks of the river Moscow to house members of the Soviet elite, as the symbol around which he constructs his view of the Russian Revolution." ---Peter Waldron, History Today, Yuri Slezkine's The House of Government is a humane masterpiece . . . . There are pages I don't any reader will ever forget. ---Philip Hensher, The Guardian, " The House of Government traces the public and personal lives of residents of a unique, elite Moscow housing complex as they evolve from fanatic Bolshevik revolutionaries--dreaming of a Marxist utopia and determined to shed blood to create it--to victims of Stalin's terror. Based on diaries, letters, memoirs, and interviews, featuring hundreds of rare photos, and combining history, biography, and social theory, this cornucopia of a book is a tour de force." --William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era and Gorbachev: His Life and Times, This comprehensive work of scholarship and storytelling will appeal to readers with an interest in the Russian Revolution, the early Soviet Union, and the pitfalls of utopian community building. ---Laurie Unger Skinner, Library Journal, This is a blockbuster of a book, both in size and importance. It is too big to take on the train . . . but too gripping to leave behind. ---Christian Tyler, Tribune, "In this monumental study, Yuri Slezkine tells the story of the first Soviet ruling generation by looking through the windows of the remarkable building where many of them lived. Fittingly built in an area called the Swamp, the House of Government saw more than a third of its elite tenants evicted and arrested in the terror of the 1930s. Drawing on an amazing array of archives, memoirs, and interviews, Slezkine's unique narrative becomes a history of the Soviet Union itself. Nobody interested in Soviet history can afford to miss it." --J. Arch Getty, University of California, Los Angeles, "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), The House of Government is one of the best books to understand why the Soviet experiment failed. Yuri Slezkine has unmatched academic credentials and command on the subject. It is written in such a brilliant way that everybody interested in history will enjoy it. It is veritably a masterpiece of history., The book is richly layered and multifaceted : it offers a philosophical reflection on religion and its relationship to the intellectual underpinnings of the Russian Revolution, a political and biographical history of the first half of the twentieth century, a study of the period's key literary texts, and an extensive assessment of Stalinist architecture. The book's depth (not to mention its length) invites the reader to luxuriate in it, chapter by chapter, rather than simply plowing through. ---Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs, "One can be both overwhelmed and inspired, as one often is by a classic Russian novel." ---Max Holleran, Los Angeles Review of Books, "Gripping. . . . This is a mesmerising view from the inside of a terrible history. It should be read by every student of Russian history, amateur or professional, and find a place in every school and college library." ---Christian Tyler, Tribune Magazine, "This comprehensive work of scholarship and storytelling will appeal to readers with an interest in the Russian Revolution, the early Soviet Union, and the pitfalls of utopian community building." ---Laurie Unger Skinner, Library Journal, [The] chapters on the Stalinist Terror are the most vivid. Over all, Slezkine's writing is sharp, fresh, sometimes playful. ---Marci Shore, New York Times Book Review, "Part of the book's power is in its unrelenting recounting of the stories not only of those who lived in the apartments of the House of Government, but of those like Bukharin who had family members live there, as well as in the novels and poems of the period expressing the dreams and hopes of the Soviet people." ---Wayne Cristaudo, European Legacy, At over 1,000 pages, historian and anthropologist Yuri Slezkine's House of Government is one of the most lauded and innovative new histories of the Russian Revolution published in its centenary year. It's a sprawling book that informs our own age as much as the insurrectionary moments of the 20th century. . . . Slezkine's work, somewhere between novel and history, falls into a long tradition--Tolstoy, Vasily Grossman--of sentimental Russian histories; a tragedy. The "house of government", a physical apartment building in central Moscow built for the new Soviet elite in 1931, becomes a set-piece in this theatrical, allusive account of the first (and last) Soviet generation. . . . The radical millenarianism of the Bolsheviks, as well as the tawdry but somewhat adorable swamp, are vividly brought to life in House of Government : we look through their eyes, all the better to see ourselves with. ---Jacob Dreyer, The Calvert Journal, The best non-fiction was Yuri Slezkine's astounding The House of Government . . . a terrifying glimpse of cruelty in Stalin's Russia, reduced from statistics to the human stories of individuals, crouching in terror in one much-raided apartment block. ---Philip Hensher, The Spectator, "The best non-fiction was Yuri Slezkine's astounding The House of Government . . . a terrifying glimpse of cruelty in Stalin's Russia, reduced from statistics to the human stories of individuals, crouching in terror in one much-raided apartment block." ---Philip Hensher, The Spectator, "Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed, The House of Government is at once a major scholarly and literary achievement." --Douglas Smith, author of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy, "Few books are truly visionary, but The House of Government earns this description. The cumulative effect of this massive chronicle of the Soviet era is devastating and, more important, utterly satisfying. It's a work of art in itself, a beautifully written exploration of a central phase of modern history, and one that has never seemed as terrifyingly relevant. Tolstoy himself would have recognized Yuri Slezkine as an artist, as the author of a narrative with transmogrifying power, an epic that functions on countless levels at the same time." --Jay Parini, author of The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year, Out of an astonishing range of diaries, letters, memoirs, novels and interviews, Slezkine has crafted history that qualifies as great literature. ---Gideon Haigh, The Australian, "It's art that self-consciously, and successfully, mimics Tolstoy's War and Peace and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago ." ---Matthew Harwood, Reason, "An absolute delight to read, a masterpiece of the odd, almost unclassifiable kind that Russian literature is so adept at producing." ---Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor, Of all the books marking the centenary of the Russian revolution in 2017, the most significant is The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine., It's art that self-consciously, and successfully, mimics Tolstoy's War and Peace and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago . ---Matthew Harwood, Reason, "Brilliant. . . . Magisterial. . . . A darkly enthralling thousand-page history." ---David Mikics, Tablet, This extraordinary book is certainly a pleasure to read, but it is also a challenge. Not so much because of its size, but due to its emotional and informational charge--enormous and eye-opening in equal measure. It can indeed be compared to the Bible, again, not in sheer volume, but in its importance for anyone interested in Russia and the Soviet Union. . . . A true cornerstone, not just of the 'House of Government', but of the history of totalitarianism, too. ---Vitali Vitaliev, Engineering and Technology, Reads like a Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita --full of twists and turns, vignettes and stories that shed light onto everyday life in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution from the perspective of 'Old Bolsheviks.' . . . Leaving no corner of the House unexplored, later sections of the book reveal the shift in mentalité from millenarian Bolshevism to disillusionment for the younger generation., The author's command of the narrative, woven together with innumerable testimonies, is compelling. The effect is like Solzhenitsyn with photographs. ---Tom Stoppard, Times Literary Supplement, "Brilliant and suitably monumental. . . . Vivid, engaging and omnivorous in its deployment of anthropological and sociological ideas, The House of Government has a Tolstoyan cast of characters. . . . And as we struggle to balance the benefits of industrial modernity with its huge costs--both human and environmental--Slezkine's gripping history of these latter-day Fausts is especially relevant, even if their mental world seems so remote from our own." ---David Priestland, Financial Times, "His work is both mischievous and calmly analytical, wildly provocative and thoughtful at the same time." ---Tony Wood, The Nation, "To roam the corridors of the House of Government, following the endlessly intersecting stories of Bolshevik families at home, is to come as close as a distant reader can to the horror, strangeness and disorientating pathos of the revolution. Slezkine's scholarship and his powerful historical imagination take us into the heart of the confrontation between the everyday reality of Bolshevism and its extreme millenarian metaphysics. . . . The meaning of The House of Government is in reading it, right to the end. It is a monumental edifice of scholarship and historical insight." ---Rachel Polonsky, Standpoint, Gripping. . . . This is a mesmerising view from the inside of a terrible history. It should be read by every student of Russian history, amateur or professional, and find a place in every school and college library. ---Christian Tyler, Tribune Magazine, "Out of an astonishing range of diaries, letters, memoirs, novels and interviews, Slezkine has crafted history that qualifies as great literature." ---Gideon Haigh, The Australian, "The book is richly layered and multifaceted: it offers a philosophical reflection on religion and its relationship to the intellectual underpinnings of the Russian Revolution, a political and biographical history of the first half of the twentieth century, a study of the period's key literary texts, and an extensive assessment of Stalinist architecture. The book's depth (not to mention its length) invites the reader to luxuriate in it, chapter by chapter, rather than simply plowing through." ---Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs, "Using the House of Government as a microcosm of the rise and fall of the first generation of Soviet leaders and their utopian ideas, Yuri Slezkine's remarkable book illuminates the entire experience of Stalinism. Drawing on memoirs, letters, and literature, he lays bare the emotions of the Russian Revolution and its Bolshevik beneficiaries, from love and friendship to a commitment to the end that justified the most vicious means. Perpetrators became victims as hundreds of once-powerful residents of the House were imprisoned, exiled, tortured, and shot. The House of Government is extraordinarily ambitious, exciting, and disturbing." --Ronald Grigor Suny, author of The Soviet Experiment, "This is a blockbuster of a book, both in size and importance. It is too big to take on the train . . . but too gripping to leave behind." ---Christian Tyler, Tribune, His work is both mischievous and calmly analytical, wildly provocative and thoughtful at the same time. ---Tony Wood, The Nation, "What more fitting monument to a millenarian movement could there be than a thousand-page 'saga'? Yuri Slezkine's guiding argument in this remarkable, many-layered account of the men (rarely women) who shaped the October Revolution is that the Bolsheviks were not a party but an apocalyptic sect. The House of Government is a compelling microhistory of the interwar Soviet elite, but it is also a literary-rhetorical tour de force." ---Stephen Lovell, Times Literary Supplement, "An incomparable masterpiece, Slezkine's account of the lives of elite Bolshevik families is as fascinating as a nineteenth-century Russian novel. He builds real drama and pathos into the stories of these people, and we find ourselves hoping against hope that they will survive. Yet this is history of the highest rigor. It would take several lifetimes for mere mortals to locate, read, and figure out what to do with the diaries, letters, notebooks, and drawings Slezkine found in the archives. This family saga heightens the tragedy of the Russian Revolution and gives the reader a quality of understanding rarely achieved by any work of history." --Lewis H. Siegelbaum, coeditor of Stalinism as a Way of Life and author of Cars for Comrades, Winner of the 2018 Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Full of fresh thinking, acute descriptions and unforgettable details of a world turned upside down. ---Owen Hatherley, Architectural Review, The book is richly layered and multifaceted: it offers a philosophical reflection on religion and its relationship to the intellectual underpinnings of the Russian Revolution, a political and biographical history of the first half of the twentieth century, a study of the period's key literary texts, and an extensive assessment of Stalinist architecture. The book's depth (not to mention its length) invites the reader to luxuriate in it, chapter by chapter, rather than simply plowing through. ---Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs, This panoramic history plotted as an epic family tragedy describes the lives of Bolshevik revolutionaries who were swallowed up by the cause they believed in. The story is as intricate as any Russian novel, and the chapters on the Stalinist Terror are the most vivid., To roam the corridors of the House of Government, following the endlessly intersecting stories of Bolshevik families at home, is to come as close as a distant reader can to the horror, strangeness and disorientating pathos of the revolution. Slezkine's scholarship and his powerful historical imagination take us into the heart of the confrontation between the everyday reality of Bolshevism and its extreme millenarian metaphysics. . . . The meaning of The House of Government is in reading it, right to the end. It is a monumental edifice of scholarship and historical insight. ---Rachel Polonsky, Standpoint, "Yuri Slezkine's The House of Government is a humane masterpiece . . . . There are pages I don't any reader will ever forget." ---Philip Hensher, The Guardian, In epic, almost Tolstoyan style, Yuri Slezkine charts the fervent ideological beliefs, political careers, everyday lives, and eventual tragic demise of a host of Bolshevik revolutionaries. . . . It is a deeply human story. Indeed, the lasting value of this work is its detailed reconstruction of the hopes, fears, disappointments, and mental anguish of not only well-known Old Bolsheviks, such as Nikolai Bukharin, but also 'lesser' figures like Aleksandr Arosev, Mikhail Koltsov, and Aleksandr Voronsky (among tens of others), who are brought to life pretty much for the first time in existing literature. . . . This is a colossal, thought-provoking, and in many ways impressive piece of work. It will be essential reading for all scholars of Bolshevism and Soviet history for many years to come. ---Kevin McDermott, Russian Review, "Gripping. . . . This is a mesmerising view from the inside of a terrible history. It should be read by every student of Russian history, amateur or professional, and find a place in every school and college library." --Christian Tyler, Tribune Magazine, Slezkine uses the House of Government, a huge apartment block built in the late 1920s on the banks of the river Moscow to house members of the Soviet elite, as the symbol around which he constructs his view of the Russian Revolution. ---Peter Waldron, History Today, "This extraordinary book is certainly a pleasure to read, but it is also a challenge. Not so much because of its size, but due to its emotional and informational charge--enormous and eye-opening in equal measure. It can indeed be compared to the Bible, again, not in sheer volume, but in its importance for anyone interested in Russia and the Soviet Union. . . . A true cornerstone, not just of the 'House of Government', but of the history of totalitarianism, too." ---Vitali Vitaliev, Engineering and Technology, A remarkable work of imaginative historical reconstruction and craftsmanship. Reviewers have already compared its epic style to Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Vasilly Grossman's Life and Fate , though the more direct inspiration is surely George Perec's Life: A User's Manual . Like Perec's novel about a Parisian apartment building, Slezkine uses the House of Government built by the Soviet regime to peel fascinating layers of the Bolshevik experience up until the onset of the Second World War. ---Srinath Raghavan, Mint, "I loved The House of Government . . . . It's compelling, gripping and a wonderful read that tells the story of a building in central Moscow that was home to the bigwigs of Bolshevik and communist Russia. I couldn't put it down - despite its weight." ---Peter Frankopan, The Tablet, A story that is as Russian in scope as it is symbolic of what Russia and the Russian revolution eventually became., "Full of fresh thinking, acute descriptions and unforgettable details of a world turned upside down." ---Owen Hatherley, Architectural Review, "The author's command of the narrative, woven together with innumerable testimonies, is compelling. The effect is like Solzhenitsyn with photographs." ---Tom Stoppard, Times Literary Supplement, "At over 1,000 pages, historian and anthropologist Yuri Slezkine's House of Government is one of the most lauded and innovative new histories of the Russian Revolution published in its centenary year. It's a sprawling book that informs our own age as much as the insurrectionary moments of the 20th century. . . . Slezkine's work, somewhere between novel and history, falls into a long tradition--Tolstoy, Vasily Grossman--of sentimental Russian histories; a tragedy. The "house of government", a physical apartment building in central Moscow built for the new Soviet elite in 1931, becomes a set-piece in this theatrical, allusive account of the first (and last) Soviet generation. . . . The radical millenarianism of the Bolsheviks, as well as the tawdry but somewhat adorable swamp, are vividly brought to life in House of Government : we look through their eyes, all the better to see ourselves with." ---Jacob Dreyer, The Calvert Journal, A brilliant retelling of, mainly, the first two decades of the Soviet era in a sprawling saga centered around a famous and infamous Moscow apartment building created for the new elite. ---Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal, "Magisterial. . . . A twelve-hundred-page epic that recounts the multigenerational story of the famed building and its inhabitants--and, at least as interesting, the rise and fall of Bolshevist faith." ---Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, "An utterly gripping masterwork. As residents of the House of Government enjoy privileged childhoods, fall in love and marry, rise to power, betray each other, and are arrested and shot, we learn about the peculiar nature of Bolshevism and get a new history of Russia. But the book's compelling brilliance is its living organic nature--a mixture of historical narrative, novel, and family saga with echoes of Grossman, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and even Tolstoy." --Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, "To roam the corridors of the House of Government, following the endlessly intersecting stories of Bolshevik families at home, is to come as close as a distant reader can to the horror, strangeness and disorientating pathos of the revolution. Slezkine's scholarship and his powerful historical imagination take us into the heart of the confrontation between the everyday reality of Bolshevism and its extreme millenarian metaphysics. . . . The meaning of The House of Government is in reading it, right to the end. It is a monumental edifice of scholarship and historical insight." --Rachel Polonsky, Standpoint, Brilliant and suitably monumental. . . . Vivid, engaging and omnivorous in its deployment of anthropological and sociological ideas, The House of Government has a Tolstoyan cast of characters. . . . And as we struggle to balance the benefits of industrial modernity with its huge costs--both human and environmental--Slezkine's gripping history of these latter-day Fausts is especially relevant, even if their mental world seems so remote from our own. ---David Priestland, Financial Times, Magisterial. . . . A twelve-hundred-page epic that recounts the multigenerational story of the famed building and its inhabitants--and, at least as interesting, the rise and fall of Bolshevist faith. ---Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, "In epic, almost Tolstoyan style, Yuri Slezkine charts the fervent ideological beliefs, political careers, everyday lives, and eventual tragic demise of a host of Bolshevik revolutionaries. . . . It is a deeply human story. Indeed, the lasting value of this work is its detailed reconstruction of the hopes, fears, disappointments, and mental anguish of not only well-known Old Bolsheviks, such as Nikolai Bukharin, but also 'lesser' figures like Aleksandr Arosev, Mikhail Koltsov, and Aleksandr Voronsky (among tens of others), who are brought to life pretty much for the first time in existing literature. . . . This is a colossal, thought-provoking, and in many ways impressive piece of work. It will be essential reading for all scholars of Bolshevism and Soviet history for many years to come." ---Kevin McDermott, Russian Review, [ The House of Government ] is a dizzying book, a hall of mirrors, panoramic and bizarre, as puzzlingly esoteric and thrillingly fervent as the doctrines it describes. ---Owen Hatherley, The Guardian, 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., "Yuri Slezkine's The House of Government is a massive, page-turning, almost novelistic take on the Revolution seen through the life of one Moscow apartment complex. It paints a vivid picture of what living messianic utopianism feels like." ---Pratap Bhana Mehta, The Indian Express, Brilliant. . . . Magisterial. . . . A darkly enthralling thousand-page history. ---David Mikics, Tablet, What more fitting monument to a millenarian movement could there be than a thousand-page 'saga'? Yuri Slezkine's guiding argument in this remarkable, many-layered account of the men (rarely women) who shaped the October Revolution is that the Bolsheviks were not a party but an apocalyptic sect. The House of Government is a compelling microhistory of the interwar Soviet elite, but it is also a literary-rhetorical tour de force. ---Stephen Lovell, Times Literary Supplement, "A brilliant retelling of, mainly, the first two decades of the Soviet era in a sprawling saga centered around a famous and infamous Moscow apartment building created for the new elite." ---Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal, Yuri Slezkine's The House of Government is a massive, page-turning, almost novelistic take on the Revolution seen through the life of one Moscow apartment complex. It paints a vivid picture of what living messianic utopianism feels like. ---Pratap Bhana Mehta, The Indian Express, "Unlike many of his fellow academics, Yuri Slezkine, a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, is also an extremely gifted writer whose insight and erudition extend far beyond his specific discipline. He also has a keen sense of humor, which comes in handy when writing a massive book on a tragically depressing subject. . . . [M]ost of the real people and situations making up his narrative could have stepped directly out of the pages of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Turgenev or Tolstoy." ---Aram Bakshian Jr., Washington Times, "Yuri Slezkine, Mercurian par excellence, has caught an extraordinary set of lives in this book. Few historians, dead or alive, have managed to combine so spectacularly the gifts of storyteller and scholar." ---Benjamin Nathans, New York Review of Books, One can be both overwhelmed and inspired, as one often is by a classic Russian novel. ---Max Holleran, Los Angeles Review of Books, Shortlisted for the 2019 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame, Honorable Mention for the 2019 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame, An absolute delight to read, a masterpiece of the odd, almost unclassifiable kind that Russian literature is so adept at producing. ---Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor, "Yuri Slezkine's The House of Government is a humane masterpiece . . . . There are pages I don't think any reader will ever forget." ---Philip Hensher, The Guardian, Yuri Slezkine, Mercurian par excellence, has caught an extraordinary set of lives in this book. Few historians, dead or alive, have managed to combine so spectacularly the gifts of storyteller and scholar. ---Benjamin Nathans, New York Review of Books, "[A] beautifully written text. . . . Extraordinary study." ---Christopher Read, Journal of Contemporary History, "Yuri Slezkine's brilliant account of the Soviet past shifts the story away from coal and iron statistics and into Bolshevik millenarianism, Communist love lives, and the terror that enveloped a generation of leaders. A tour de force." --Robert Service, author of Lenin: A Biography, "[ The House of Government ] is a dizzying book, a hall of mirrors, panoramic and bizarre, as puzzlingly esoteric and thrillingly fervent as the doctrines it describes." ---Owen Hatherley, The Guardian, "Yuri Slezkine . . . has written a book for the ages, a Pamir, an instant classic." ---Richard G. Robbins, Slavonic & East European Review, "A remarkable work of imaginative historical reconstruction and craftsmanship. Reviewers have already compared its epic style to Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Vasilly Grossman's Life and Fate , though the more direct inspiration is surely George Perec's Life: A User's Manual . Like Perec's novel about a Parisian apartment building, Slezkine uses the House of Government built by the Soviet regime to peel fascinating layers of the Bolshevik experience up until the onset of the Second World War." ---Srinath Raghavan, Mint, I loved The House of Government . . . . It's compelling, gripping and a wonderful read that tells the story of a building in central Moscow that was home to the bigwigs of Bolshevik and communist Russia. I couldn't put it down - despite its weight. ---Peter Frankopan, The Tablet, "With this truly monumental volume, Berkeley historian Yuri Slezkine has masterfully succeeded in offering a comprehensive analysis of the Stalinist political, psychological and intellectual cosmos in the 1930s." ---Vladimir Tismaneanu, International Affairs, Unlike many of his fellow academics, Yuri Slezkine, a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, is also an extremely gifted writer whose insight and erudition extend far beyond his specific discipline. He also has a keen sense of humor, which comes in handy when writing a massive book on a tragically depressing subject. . . . [M]ost of the real people and situations making up his narrative could have stepped directly out of the pages of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Turgenev or Tolstoy. ---Aram Bakshian Jr., Washington Times
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2017
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2016-049071
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| Postage and packaging | To | Service | Delivery*See Delivery notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free postage | United States | Economy P&P (USPS Media MailTM) | Estimated between Mon, 24 Jun and Fri, 28 Jun to 43230 |
| Dispatch time |
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| Will usually dispatch within 2 working days of receiving cleared payment. |
| Taxes |
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| Taxes may be applicable at checkout. Learn moreLearn more about paying tax on eBay purchases. |
Sales tax for an item #204708766515
Sales tax for an item #204708766515
Seller collects sales tax/VAT for items dispatched to the following states:
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Returns policy
| After receiving the item, cancel the purchase within | Refund will be given as | Return postage |
|---|---|---|
| 30 days | Money back | Buyer pays for return postage |
The buyer is responsible for return postage costs.
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| Returns accepted |
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Very hard to find these books, thank you so much.
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Great seller, great book! A+++
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Great seller and products thank you very much ✅👍🏻