Cover art for The House of Government
Published
Princeton University Press, April 2019
ISBN
9780691192727
Format
Softcover, 1128 pages
Dimensions
23.5cm × 15.6cm

The House of Government A Saga of the Russian Revolution by

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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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