This is a long work (of over a 1000 pages) tracing the history of the Russian revolution from 1917 through to the death of Stalin in 1953. It does this through the medium of the large apartment block in Moscow termed ‘The House of Government’ for it housed high ranking Soviet civil servants, public intellectuals and politicians. The dominant idea is that Marxism was essentially a millenarian sect with much in common with other apocalyptic cults throughout history, such as the Münster Anabaptists of the 16th Century. It is very well researched, and the underlying premise appears to stand up. However, the author repeatedly places Christianity as a whole within the class of millenarian sects. He interprets Sacred Scripture and the early history of Christianity solely in this manner, revealing a very distorted understanding of Christianity.