A review by marisbest2
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution, by Yuri Slezkine

5.0

This book was fascinating and deep. I know next to nothing about communism and bolshevism or Soviet history, but this was a fascinating deep analysis and very detailed. Its biggest flaw is its thesis that Bolshevism was a millinarian cult and it ends with the question of why Bolshevism was a failed millinarian cult. The obvious answer should be that it wasn't just a millinarian cult...

Nonetheless, the book and the detail and the writing were all excellent. The analysis was excellent as well, if not quite accurate in the historical sense then still meaningful in the literary sense