The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution

The House of Government is a gripping narrative that tells the true story of top Communist officials and their families who lived in an enormous Moscow apartment building before they were destroyed in Stalin's purges.

This book, written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, is a vivid account of personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers.

Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as The House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin and combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces.

Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building's residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until they were evicted and led to prison or their deaths.

This book 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 became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.

Don't miss out on this captivating and informative read!