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 550 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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The Story of 冚家铲
0 有用 周北冥 2022-11-29 04:43:13 美国
One reason for the fragility of Russian Marxism was that the Party’s doctrine was not Russian enough. The other was that the country it took over was too Russian at heart. 一星扣在野心太大材料太多 但不是人人都能当托尔斯泰的……
0 有用 BBpanda 2020-06-19 17:21:22
莫斯科#筒子楼往事#
2 有用 陈大鸭 2020-03-02 17:48:09
本书亮点在于视角非常别致:从某幢政府家属楼的居民生活切入,一窥时局震荡与信仰幻灭。家属楼本身,则演化为了历史的幽灵的载体。较之宏观的讲述,这样的微观记录更显时代纹理。非常精彩。
0 有用 周北冥 2022-11-29 04:43:13 美国
One reason for the fragility of Russian Marxism was that the Party’s doctrine was not Russian enough. The other was that the country it took over was too Russian at heart. 一星扣在野心太大材料太多 但不是人人都能当托尔斯泰的……
0 有用 BBpanda 2020-06-19 17:21:22
莫斯科#筒子楼往事#
2 有用 陈大鸭 2020-03-02 17:48:09
本书亮点在于视角非常别致:从某幢政府家属楼的居民生活切入,一窥时局震荡与信仰幻灭。家属楼本身,则演化为了历史的幽灵的载体。较之宏观的讲述,这样的微观记录更显时代纹理。非常精彩。
2 有用 SitNomineDigna 2018-10-10 07:21:16
The Story of 冚家铲