The House of Government

Copyright © 2017 by Yuri Slezkine

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Names: Slezkine, Yuri, 1956- author.

Title: The House of Government : a saga of the Russian Revolution / Yuri Slezkine.

Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016049071 | ISBN 9780691176949 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Moscow (Russia)—Politics and government—20th century. | Communists—Russia (Federation)—Moscow—Biography. | Apartment dwellers—Russia (Federation)—Moscow—Biography. | Victims of state-sponsored terrorism—Russia (Federation)—Moscow—Biography. | Moscow (Russia)—Biography. | Apartment houses—Russia (Federation)—Moscow—History—20th century. | Moscow (Russia)—Buildings, structures, etc. | Political purges—Soviet Union—History. | State-sponsored terrorism—Soviet Union—History. | Soviet Union—Politics and government—1936–1953. | BISAC: HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. | HISTORY / Revolutionary. | HISTORY / Social History. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism.

Classification: LCC DK601 .S57 2017 | DDC 947.084/10922—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016049071

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