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The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution

Yuri Slezkine

"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's gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin's purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children's loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union."--Provided by publisher.

HistoryHistory · medium confidenceHistory81 signalsLlm Classifier: History -> HistoryAward Category: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryCold War & Nuclear PoliticsReligion & Religious MovementsWar & Military StrategyEurope & Russia

Award History

2 wins · 3 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
American Historical Association Book Prizes: George L. Mosse Prize in European Intellectual and Cultural History2018WinnerOfficial source
PROSE Award for World History2018WinnerOfficial source
Laura Shannon Prize: European Studies2019FinalistOfficial source
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This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Moscow88%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    Slezkine’s narrative links the residents’ conversion to Communism to the later collapse of belief, showing how Stalin’s purges and the fall of the Soviet Union destroyed the building’s Communist lives.

    Model confidence 44%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    70 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 46%.