A song by Def with Dos rhetorically wondered who had translated Lenin's speeches. There must have been some culprit in that disaster that was the implantation of communism.
And it is that yes, beyond the musical parody something went wrong, completely wrong. In the first place, because it faced human nature, individualistic and yearning for material collection since we inhabited the caves (it is not worth putting as an excuse the drift of capitalism that only worsens the essence). Second, because human nature is capable of any juggling, of every excuse and justification, of the most strange defense to explain why it ends up acting against what is explicit.
The inspiration Marxist It ended up being activated in a monstrosity like the USSR and ended up destroying itself as only a human work can do, in a big way. This book gives us a new vision from the anecdotal but enlightening. Better to have all the luminaries together in a single building just in case. And if that, once everyone is gathered, then sieves are made when necessary ...
Synopsis
Designed by the visionary architect Borís Iofán and inaugurated in 1931, the Government House is a colossal building of more than five hundred apartments that stands on the banks of the Moskva River, in front of the Kremlin, originally intended to house the main leaders and intellectuals Soviets and their families. Yuri Slezkine traces the history of the devotees and ideologues of the Bolshevik cause who ruled the ussr and ended up becoming victims of the Stalinist purges.
A text that skillfully combines biography, literary criticism and history with fascinating theories about revolutions, millennial prophecies and utopias. The result is the story, in the tradition of War and Peace, Life and Fate and the Gulag Archipelago, of the vicissitudes of the tenants of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, was a disturbing human experiment and ended up inhabited by the ghosts of the disappeared who, despite the efforts of the regime, never fell into oblivion.
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