Bolshevism’s New Believers
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
by Yuri Slezkine
Princeton University Press, 1,104 pp., $39.95
Over the past one hundred years, some 20,000 books on the Russian
Revolution have been published, roughly six thousand of them in English.
It’s as if, starting on October 25, 1917—or November 7, according to
the Western calendar the Bolsheviks adopted soon after seizing power—a
new book on that topic appeared without fail every weekday (with summers
off). It could be worse: there are now over 70,000 books on the French
Revolution. Which one are you going to read?
Read m,ore at the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
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