The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine biography they leave on the last

they leave on the last train out of the city before it is seized by the Bolsheviks

but all the more powerful for its first-hand testament to one of history's most chaotic eras

melancholy and

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has led to widespread sanctions being imposed on Russia

The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine biography they leave on the lastThis book was shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2018. 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,