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Fittingly, Princeton University Press stakeholders from around the world—including advisers, trustees, publishing partners, and staff— have made this exciting list possible. We are thankful to them all. Peter J. Dougherty, Director The House of Government A Saga of the Russian Revolution Y LURI S EZKINE 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 On the 100th anniversary of the conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith Russian Revolution, the epic and the fall of the Soviet Union. story of an enormous apartment Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known building where Communist true as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow believers lived before River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 550 furnished apartments with public spaces that included their destruction 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 “An utterly gripping masterwork. As residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until residents of the House of Government some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, enjoy privileged childhoods, fall in one by one, to prison or their deaths. love and marry, rise to power, betray Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring each other, and are arrested and shot, hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves we learn about the peculiar nature together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fasci- of Bolshevism and get a new history nating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of Russia. But the book’s compelling of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building brilliance is its living organic nature— that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever a mixture of historical narrative, novel, disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared. and family saga with echoes of Gross- Yuri Slezkine is the Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the Uni- man, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and versity of California, Berkeley. His books include The Jewish Century even Tolstoy.” (Princeton), which won the National Jewish Book Award. —Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar AUGUST 978-0-691-17694-9 Cloth $39.95T 1096 pages. 397 halftones. 8 maps. 6 x 9. NationaL AUTHOR TOUR HISTORY | RUSSIAN HISTORY 2 Trade A N INTERView with YURI SLEZKINE What is the House of Government? It is a huge apartment building in central Moscow where most top members of the Soviet government (People’s Commissars, Red Army commanders, Marxist scholars, Gulag officials, industrial managers, foreign communists, socialist-realist writers, Stalin’s relatives, and many others) lived in the 1930s before being arrested in the Great Terror. How is this book different from others about this period inR ussian history? It tells the story of the Bolshevik Revolution through the family histo- ries of prominent revolutionaries, from their conversion to Commu- nism as adolescents to their children’s loss of faith in the aftermath of Khrushchev’s Secret Speech. urent Denimal a What’s the most controversial claim you make? L I argue that the Bolsheviks were apocalyptic sectarians who expected the end of the world in their lifetimes, confronted the failure of the Photo by prophecy in the privacy of their apartments, failed to raise their chil- dren as future Communists, and were, at the time of their trials, guilty of betraying the cause. “Few books are truly visionary, but Why do you call it a saga? The House of Government earns this Because it is a historical epic with multiple characters, motifs, and description. The cumulative effect of planes of reality intersecting and coexisting in time (and stretching this massive chronicle of the Soviet era over the lives of several generations).