The House of Government
A Saga of the Russian Revolution
Recommended by Murtaza Mohammad Hussain, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #82 in Russian History
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... more
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Murtaza Mohammad Hussain @TheIllegit Sorry *of. That was a great book (Source)
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