Sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Center for German and European Studies (CGES), with support from the Alice D. Mortenson-Michael B. Petrovich Chair in Russian History and CREECA.
Karl Schlögel will give a lecture “Exploring the Soviet Century” on Wednesday, February 7, 2024 at 5:00 pm in 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive.
About the Lecture: 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. 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.
About the Speaker: Karl Schlögel is professor emeritus of Eastern European history at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder and a noted journalist. His book The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World was published by Princeton University Press in March 2023. Other books include Moscow 1937 (2012), The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow (2021), and Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland (2022).