Karl Schlögel. Das sowjetische Jahrhundert: Archäologie einer untergegangenen Welt.
Journal: The American Historical Review
Year: 2019

Karl Schlögel is unique among German Russianists. He writes in a way that is accessible, elegant, and enjoys a wide readership, not only in Germany—his 2012 Moscow, 1937 became an English best seller as well. While his kind of history writing was derided by colleagues as essayistisch during the heyday of social history, today it is a kind of brand, and one that continues to feel fresh because it anticipated changing reading habits. Das sowjetische Jahrhundert consists of a few dozen vignettes (i