Yuri Slezkine
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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The House of Government
- By: Yuri Slezkine
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 45 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction
The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the... Read more
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