Government House
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Yuri Slovkin tells the history of the Soviet Union through the history of one of its most famous, demonstrative and tragic symbols. House of the government, he is the first house of the Soviets, he is the legendary house on the embankment. The elite of the USSR lived here. Scientists and writers, actors and party figures, marshals and inventors, omnipotent tyrants and their victims, those who were expected with enthusiasm at the entrance for the sake of an autograph, and those whose name were afraid to pronounce even in the kitchens. Demyan Poor and Alexander Serafimovich, Svetlana Alliluyeva and Vasily Stalin, Lavrenty Beria and Nikita Khrushchev, Alexei Stakhanov and Artyom Mikoyan, George Zhukov and Ivan Bagramyan, Yuri Trifonov and Pavel Postystyshev, Mikhail Tukhachevsky and Vasily Blucher. In the 1930s and 1940s, about 800 inhabitants of the house were repressed. In the days of great terror, some apartments changed several owners per month. The Government House is a documentary story about how it was born, developed and died. And with him the whole country
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:White
Series:
Series: Corpus. (Historia)
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:0+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-100477-4
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