Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communismby Vladimir Tismaneanu

✍ Scribed by Review by: Robert Legvold

• Book ID: 125242828
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 206 KB
• Volume: 83
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20033944

✦ Synopsis

Nivat, a French journalist, lives in one of Moscow's seven wedding-cake skyscrapers-Stalin's main contribution to Russian architecture. Completed in 1952, its first residents were the privileged families of prominent military leaders, security police, and cultural figures. Their heirs remain, along with an array of "new Russians" and Western businessmen. From a sample of the most interesting the movie actress Klara Luchkov, the great grandnephew of politician Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the stepdaughter of writer Konstantin Paustovksy, the old women who keep watch over the massive foyer Nivat extracts the building's intricate stories. Most of the interviewees are