Yuri Slezkine

The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine is a monumental historical epic that transports readers into the very heart of Soviet life. Set against the rich and tumultuous backdrop of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, this captivating narrative delves into the lives of the fervent Communist officials and their families, who occupied the grand House on the Embankment in...

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction unfolds in The House of Government. This book is unlike any other 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...