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The Soviet century

The Soviet century
archaeology of a lost world

  • ISBN: 9780691183749
  • Editorial: Princeton University Press
  • Lugar de la edición: Princeton (NJ). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
  • Encuadernación: Cartoné
  • Medidas: 24 cm
  • Nº Pág.: 928
  • Idiomas: Inglés

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Resumen

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.


Introduction : archaeology of a vanished world
Shards of Empire
Highway of enthusiasts
Soviet sign-worlds
The life of things
Oases of freedom
Interiors
Landscapes, public spaces
Big data
Rituals
Bodies
Kolyma : the pole of cold
The Solovetsky special camp, laboratory of extremes : Monastery Island as concentration camp
Corridors of power
The noise of time
Alien territory, contact zones, in-between worlds
The railroads of empire : time travel back into the Russian twentieth century
Red cube : the Lenin mausoleum as keystone
The Lubyanka project : design for a musée imaginaire of Soviet civilisation

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