Yuri Slezkine: 5 books

For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale. "They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people," complained...

This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: “The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century.” The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it drives home Yuri Slezkine’s provocative thesis: Jews have adapted to...

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 Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition...

Dans ce texte fleuve qui ne déparerait pas parmi les classiques de la littérature slave, Yuri Slezkine nous invite au cœur de la Maison du Gouvernement, un bâtiment résidentiel hors-normes, pensé comme le foyer et le miroir des aspirations bolcheviks à un monde nouveau. Destiné à loger les...

Provocateur, mais magistral et hors du commun, couronné par plusieurs prix, dont le National Jewish Book Award et le Prix du meilleur livre universitaire sur la religion de l'Association des éditeurs américains, The Jewish Century a été reconnu, dès sa parution aux États-Unis, comme un véritable...