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The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
By Slezkine, Yuri
- ISBN
- 9780691176949 9781400888177
- Publisher
- Princeton Univ.
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Reviewed on July 1, 2017 | Social Sciences
The House of Government, a large Soviet living complex built in Moscow in the 1920s, was populated by government and party officials not quite significant enough to live in the Kremlin. Slezkine (history, Univ. of California Berkeley; The Jewish Century) relates Bolshevik and Soviet life and history as experienced by its residents. The residence is placed in geographic, architectural, and historical contexts of the late 19...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
