House of Government
House of Government
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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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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- Cod: BRT9780691176949
- Categoria: Russia & The Former Soviet Union
- Categoria: Travel
- Categoria: European History
- Categoria: General
- Categoria: Reference
- Categoria: Revolutionary
- Categoria: Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
- Tip: Hardback
- Data aparitie: 28072017
- Editie: Hardcover
- An aparitie: 2017
- Autor: Yuri Slezkine
- Editura: Princeton University Press
- Nr. pagini: 1128 Afiseaza mai mult