When you combine reading this book with some additional books that continue to spell out the ultimate consequences of the Russian Revolution, even by just a few years, you can quickly see that even pure belief and action couldn’t fully protect you from the dangers of revolution. Yuri Slezkine’s House of Government spends a lot of time dealing with the post-revolution purges of the 1930s, which should at least complicate one’s sense of revolution. This book though adds another important factor: how people got so […]