The House of Government : : A Saga of the Russian Revolution / / Yuri Slezkine.
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolst...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1128 p.) :; 416 b/w illus., 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- BOOK ONE: EN ROUTE
- PART I. ANTICIPATION
- 1. The Swamp
- 2. The Preachers
- 3. The Faith
- PART II. FULFILLMENT
- 4. The Real Day
- 5. The Last Battle
- 6. The New City
- 7. The Great Disappointment
- 8. The Party Line
- BOOK TWO: AT HOME
- PART III. THE SECOND COMING
- 9. The Eternal House
- 1O. The New Tenants
- 11. The Economic Foundations
- 12. The Virgin Lands
- 13. The Ideological Substance
- PART IV. THE REIGN OF THE SAINTS
- 14. The New Life
- 15. The Days Off
- 16. The Houses of Rest
- 17. The Next of Kin
- 18. The Center of the World
- 19. The Pettiness of Existence
- 2O. The Thought of Death
- 21. The Happy Childhood
- 22. The New Men
- BOOK THREE: ON TRIAL
- PART V: THE LAST JUDGMENT
- 23. The Telephone Call
- 24. The Admission of Guilt
- 25. The Valley of the Dead
- 26. The Knock on the Door
- 27. The Good People
- 28. The Supreme Penalty
- PART VI. THE AFTERLIFE
- 29. The End of Childhood
- 3O. The Persistence of Happiness
- 31. The Coming of War
- 32. The Return
- 33. The End
- Epilogue: The House on the Embankment
- Appendix: Partial List of Leaseholders
- Notes
- Index