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, Yuri...

Slezkine argues that the Jews were, in effect, among the world's first free agents. They traditionally belonged to a social and anthropological category known as "service nomads," an outsider group specializing in the delivery of goods...

"The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution" von Yuri Slezkine ist eine umfassende historische Erzählung, die das Leben der Bewohner eines großen Wohnkomplexes in Moskau, bekannt als das "Haus an der Uferstraße",...