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Government House – Yuri Slezkin – IS – 2019 – ISBN 978-5-17-100477-4

Government House
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Yuri Slezkine tells the story of the Soviet Union through the story of one of its most famous, emblematic, and tragic symbols: the House of Government, also known as the First House of Soviets, aka the legendary House on the Embankment. The Soviet elite lived here: scientists and writers, actors and party officials, marshals and inventors, all-powerful tyrants and their victims, those eagerly awaited at the entrance for an autograph, and those whose names were feared even in the kitchens. Demyan Bedny and Alexander Serafimovich, Svetlana Alliluyeva and Vasily Stalin, Lavrenty Beria and Nikita Khrushchev, Alexei Stakhanov and Artyom Mikoyan, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Bagramyan, Yuri Trifonov and Pavel Postyshev, Mikhail Tukhachevsky and Vasily Blucher. In the 1930s and 1940s, approximately 800 residents of the building were subjected to the purges. During the Great Terror, some apartments changed hands several times a month. "Government House" is a documentary story about the birth, development, and demise of this building—and the entire country along with it.
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