The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World. Karl Schlögel, Rodney Livingstone
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- The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
- Karl Schlögel, Rodney Livingstone
- Page: 928
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780691237299
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
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An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique lost civilization. A museum of—and travel guide to—the Soviet past, The Soviet Century explores in evocative detail both the largest and smallest aspects of life in the USSR, from the Gulag, the planned economy, the railway system, and the steel city of Magnitogorsk to cookbooks, military medals, prison camp tattoos, and the ubiquitous perfume Red Moscow. The book examines iconic aspects of Soviet life, including long queues outside shops, cramped communal apartments, parades, and the Lenin mausoleum, as well as less famous but important parts of the USSR, including the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, the voice of Radio Moscow, graffiti, and even the typical toilet, which became a pervasive social and cultural topic. Throughout, the book shows how Soviet life simultaneously combined utopian fantasies, humdrum routine, and a pervasive terror symbolized by the Lubyanka, then as now the headquarters of the secret police. Drawing on Schlögel’s decades of travel in the Soviet and post-Soviet world, and featuring more than eighty illustrations, The Soviet Century is vivid, immediate, and grounded in firsthand encounters with the places and objects it describes. The result is an unforgettable account of the Soviet Century.
Karl Schlögel. The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World.
Schlögel's accomplishment, in pulling together a multitude of vignettes in one volume, is to communicate the totality of the Soviet experience.
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
An insightful and wide-ranging examination of the culture of Russia during its Soviet period. The author, a gifted German historian, provides the reader with
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
A museum of―and travel guide to―the Soviet past, The Soviet Century explores in evocative detail both the largest and smallest aspects of life in the USSR.
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not.
Karl Schlögel. The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World.
The cultural artifacts, living spaces, state practices, and everyday rituals Schlögel examines are all things he himself witnessed during a long
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
The Soviet Century is a quirky book by German historian Karl Schlögel, who first visited the country in 1966 and knows (knew) it well.
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Sixty-four chapters, organized into 18 sections, explore the plethora of material and sensory environments, rituals, and signs that mediated the
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
A museum of—and travel guide to—the Soviet past, The Soviet Century explores in evocative detail both the largest and smallest aspects of life in the USSR
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
A museum of–and travel guide to–the Soviet past, The Soviet Century explores in evocative detail both the largest and smallest aspects of life in the USSR.
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World ; Publish Date: October 29th, 2024 ; Publisher: Princeton University Press ; ISBN: 9780691237299 ; Pages: 928 ; Stock
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