What We Are Reading Today: The Soviet Century

What We Are Reading Today: The Soviet Century
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Updated 26 February 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: The Soviet Century

What We Are Reading Today: The Soviet Century

Author: Karl Schlogel

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.