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Loading... Das sowjetische Jahrhundert: Archäologie einer untergegangenen Welt (2017)by Karl Schlögel
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. El gran historiador de Europa oriental Karl Schlögel escribe sobre el desaparecido universo soviético a lo largo de su siglo. Él mismo presencia la inauguración de las megaconstrucciones del comunismo y la apertura de las fosas comunes del terror estalinista. Explora la vastedad del país ferroviario y las estrecheces de la vivienda comunitaria. Su labor arqueológica nos descubre lugares cotidianos para la supervivencia, como la cocina moscovita o las colas. Tampoco faltan los espacios para la felicidad o las pequeñas libertades. Cien años después de la revolución de 1917, nos presenta la imagen panorámica de una civilización que sobrepasaba el sistema político. Imprescindible para comprender «el tiempo posterior» que estamos viviendo. no reviews | add a review
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"The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least int he material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look. fell 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 i evocative detail both the largest and smallest aspects of life int he 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, cramps 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 8- illustrations, The Soviet Century is vivid, immediate, and grounded in firsthand encounters with the places and objects it describes. The result in an unforgettable account of the Soviet Century. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)947.084History and Geography Europe Russia and eastern Europe [and formerly Finland] Russian & Slavic History by Period 1855- 1917-1953 ; Communist periodLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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