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Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2023. First Edition (?). First Printing. Hard Cover. 0691183740 . Includes extensive Notes and Index. 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 Schloegel, one of the world's leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spell-binding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique lost civilisation. 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… Read More

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The Soviet Century. Archaeology of a Lost World
SCHLOGEL, Karl
ISBN: 9780691183749
Princetown University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2023, hardback with dust wrapper, near fine/vg, boards black/silver gilt, red end papers, black and white end bands, illustrated throughout from b/w photographs, 906 pp.
Boards clean and firm, no inscription or annotations, sound square binding, pages clean and bright. Wrapper clean and crisp, rubs to top edge, 0.5cm closed tear to spine head, small abrasions to spine tail.
HISTORY, USSR, RUSSIA, SOVIET UNION, ASPECTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE, GULAG, PLANNED ECONOMY, TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, RETAIL, LEISURE, THE ARTS, CULTURE, LAW ENFORCEMENT
46616 HISTORY/USSR £29.00

Princeton Univ Pr, 2023. Hardcover. New. 880 pages. 9.25x6.12x2.80 inches.