Schlögel, a German author and essayist who has critiqued authoritarian regimes in eastern Europe from Stalin to Putin, has been honored for his commitment to peace in Europe. German historian Karl ...

In the year of the Great Terror, a brilliant piece of reportage about America appeared in the Soviet Union and became in its time one of the most widely read bits of travel journalism, popular with ...

Historian Karl Schlögel is the recipient of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2025David Young/dpa/picture alliance Karl Schlögel recently returned to Berlin from a visit the Ukrainian city of ...

In this dazzling 650-page feat of historical reconstruction, Karl Schlögel, a professor at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), has summoned up a great city—what was once the New ...

'Europe refuses to see that Vladimir Putin is in fact waging a war against it and against the West' In response to the totalitarian pressure exerted on Europe by the Russian president, Karl Schlögel, ...

One might feel particularly put off – in view of Vladmir Putin’s (and thus Russia’s) abominable war on Ukraine raging since February 2022 – having to read a book on the erstwhile Soviet Union, that ...

The story of two revolutionary perfumes and their creators are at the centre of a gripping olfactory history of the 20th century “I smell like an old Soviet woman and I love it,” wrote Florence, a ...

Karl Schlögel offers a fascinating overview of the humiliation felt by the Russian president over the fall of the Soviet Union, but a new chapter on Ukraine is needed for context Putin referred to the ...

Karl Schlögel, trans. from the German by Rodney Livingstone. Princeton Univ, $39.95 (880p) ISBN 978-0-691-18374-9 In this magnum opus, Schlögel (Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland), professor ...

Enter the German historian Karl Schlögel, and his superb translator Rodney Livingstone. In The Soviet Century, they set out to present an “archaeology of a vanished world”, seeing the Soviet Union not ...