Awards

• Commended for Le Monde 's Monde des livres 2017 (chosen by Nicolas Weill) 2017
• Commended for New York Times Editors' Choice, 8-24-17.
• Commended for New York Times Editors' Choice, Aug 24, 2017 2017
• Commended for World 's 2017 Books of the Year in History 2017
• Short-listed for The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017
• Short-listed for The Spectator 2017 Books of the Year 2017
• Short-listed for The Times Literary Supplement 's Books of the Year 2017

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To roam the corridors of the House of Government, following the endlessly intersecting stories of Bolshevik families at home, is to come as close as a distant reader can to the horror, strangeness and disorientating pathos of the revolution. Slezkine's scholarship and his powerful historical imagination take us into the heart of the confrontation between the everyday reality of Bolshevism and its extreme millenarian metaphysics. . . . The meaning of The House of Government is in reading it, right to the end. It is a monumental edifice of scholarship and historical insight. --Rachel Polonsky, Standpoint Mammoth and profusely researched. . . . A work begging to be debated; Slezkine aggregates mountains of detail for an enthralling account of the rise and fall of the revolutionary generation. --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

Mammoth and profusely researched... A work begging to be debated; Slezkine aggregates mountains of detail for an enthralling account of the rise and fall of the revolutionary generation. --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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Yuri Slezkine is the Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Jewish Century (Princeton), which won the National Jewish Book Award.

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