The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World Audiobook, by Karl Schlogel Play Audiobook Sample

The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World Audiobook

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Read By: Ciaran Saward Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 20.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 15.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705088920

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

69

Longest Chapter Length:

70:01 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

26 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

26:02 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

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.

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“An impressively evocative look at material life in the USSR, from gulags and the planned economy to Red Moscow perfume and the Soviet toilet ? a ‘lost civilization’ of utopian fantasy and unbridled terror.”

— Financial Times (London) 

Quotes

  • “[A] magnum opus…This invaluable study casts a lost world in a new light.”

    — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
  • “An impressively evocative look at material life in the USSR, from gulags and the planned economy to Red Moscow perfume and the Soviet toilet ― a ‘lost civilization’ of utopian fantasy and unbridled terror.”

    — Financial Times (London)

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