Soviet Century (eBook)

Archaeology of a Lost World

Karl Schlogel (Autor)

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2023
928 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23238-6 (ISBN)

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An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe 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 Schlogel, 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 ofand travel guide tothe 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 Schlogel'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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2023
• Übersetzer: Rodney Livingstone
• Zusatzinfo: 85 b/w illus. 2 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: academic press • Crematoria • Datcha • detailed history • experience soviet life • experiencing soviet history • experiential history • firsthand encounters • Gorki‐Park • GULAG • Karl Schlögel • Kommunalka • Lubjanka • Magnitogorsk • Petrograd 1917 • Post-Soviet world • Princeton University Press • Radio Moscow • Red Moscow • soviet century • Soviet Chanel • Soviet Encyklopedia • Soviet Fashion • Soviet grafitti • Soviet interieurs • Soviet museums • Soviet perfume • Soviet railways • Soviet rituals • Soviet Sanatorium • Soviet soundscapes • Soviet way of live • The philosophical steamboat • USSR
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23238-5 / 0691232385
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23238-6 / 9780691232386