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Government House

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Government House
49.99 €
Yuri Slezkin tells the story of the Soviet Union through the story of one of its most famous, revealing and tragic symbols. The Government House, aka the First House of Soviets, aka the legendary House on the Embankment. Here lived the elite of the USSR. Scientists and writers, actors and party figures, marshals and inventors, all-powerful tyrants and their victims, those who were awaited with delight at the entrance for an autograph, and those whose name was afraid to speak even in the kitchens. Demyan Poor and Alexander Serafimovich, Svetlana Alliluyeva and Vasily Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria and Nikita Khrushchev, Alexei Stakhanov and Artyom Mikoyan, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Baghramyan, Yuri Trifonov and Pavel Postyshev, Mikhail Tukhachevsky and Vasily Blucher. In the 1930s and 1940s about 800 residents of the house were repressed. In times of great terror, some apartments changed several owners a month. "Government House" is a documentary history of how this house was born, developed and died. And together with it the whole country.
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