Karl Schlögel

Lviv en stad som nämns i krigsrapporter och nyhetsinslag. Men Lviv är lika mycket en stad mitt i Europa och dess historia. Och mitt i Europas kulturarv. I Lviv en resa till Europa möter vi resenärer, skönlitterära författare, vetenskapsmän, modernister och småborgare, lyriker och offer för omänsklig förföljelse. De vittnar om det habsburgska Lemberg, om det polska Lwów, om det judiska Lemberik, om det ryska Lvov och det ukrainska Lviv. Och om staden med många namn under nazistisk ockupation.I Lvivs intellektuella liv uppstod banbrytande matematiska resonemang, modernism på jiddisch och livräddande tyfusforskning. Från mångnationella Lviv kommer nydanande europeiska författarskap. Matematikern Stanislav Ulam och författarna Alfred Döblin och Joseph Roth är bara några av många. Lviv är inte en stad i periferin. Den som förbigår staden förbigår också delar av Europas gemensamma historia, vetenskapsarv och kultur.

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe 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.

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe 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.

Ruiner, camouflageuniformer, bilvrak. Våra bilder av Ukraina präglas numera av kriget efter Rysslands invasion i februari 2022. Men för många av oss förblir själva landet anonymt. I Dilemmat i Kiev (2015, reviderad utgåva 2022) skildrar historikern Karl Schlögel Ukraina som en mångskiftande, färgstark och inte minst självklar del av Europa. Han beskriver städer och stadsmiljöer och ger på så sätt läsaren insikt i hur en gemensam identitet vuxit fram. Tjernivtsi, en gång centrum för judisk och litterär kultur i det habsburgska imperiet. Jalta, platsen för aristokratiskt badortsliv. Donetsk, vital och mångnationell arena för den industriella revolutionen. Charkiv, med dess arkitekturmodernism från trettiotalet. Dnipropetrovsk, söderns St Petersburg. Och de tre städernas Kiev , med spännvidd från Grottklostrets kyrkohierarkier till kafékulturens boulevard Chresjtjatyk. Schlögel följer Ukrainas samhällsliv från 1600-talets kosackrike, över 1700- och 1800-talets internationella influenser, inbördeskrigets faser, genom dödsbringande tysk och sovjetisk terror till pånyttfödelsen efter landets självständighet. Han gör det med personligt tonfall och hett engagemang. Karl Schlögel är tysk historiker och författare till ett stort antal verk om Europa och Östeuropa. Hans senaste bok Der Duft der Imperien från år 2020 har översatts till nio språk. Dilemmat i Kiev är den andra boken av Schlögel som utkommer på svenska."Utgivningen av Karl Schlögels uppdaterade Dilemmat i Kiev" är en viktig välgärning." Fredrik Persson-Lahusen, Aftonbladet.

Kas kataklüsmidest tiine 20. sajandi ajalugu on võimalik edasi anda ka lõhnade maailma kaudu? Raamatus "Impeeriumide lõhn" tuleb ajaloolane Karl Schlögel sellega mängleva elegantsiga toime. Ta tugineb kahele sajandi lõhnale: ühelt poolt parfüümile Chanel No 5 ja teisalt lõhnaõlile Punane Moskva. Mõlemad pärinevad samast tüvest: 1917. aasta revolutsiooni keerises sattus Romanovite dünastia 300 aasta juubeliks loodud lõhna koostise saladus Prantsusmaale ning see sai aluseks nii Coco Chaneli loodud parfüümile Chanel No 5 kui ka selle Nõukogude vastele, mida toodetakse Venemaal Punase Moskva nime all veel praegugi. Nende lõhnade saamislood ja loojate elukäigud kajastavad ilmekalt samal ajal eksisteerinud vastandlikke keskkondi, kultuuritaustu ja poliitilisi süsteeme. Chaneli ja läänemaailma sundimatule elegantsile vastandub Nõukogude Liidu jõhker ja sumbunud, kuid ometi samuti glamuuri ihanud rezhiim."Võib-olla on see tõepoolest nii, et suur maailm, mis peegeldub tilgas vees, sisaldub ka tilgas parfüümis, mis kannab endas aroomi sajandist, mille tarbeks see loodi." - Karl Schlögel

Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this remarkable book, Karl Schlögel unravels the interconnected histories of two of the world's most celebrated perfumes. In tsarist Russia, two French perfumers – Ernest Beaux and Auguste Michel – developed related fragrances honouring Catherine the Great for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Beaux fled Russia and took the formula for his perfume with him to France, where he sought to adapt it to his new French circumstances. He presented Coco Chanel with a series of ten fragrance samples in his laboratory and, after smelling each, she chose number five – the scent that would later go by the name Chanel No. 5. Meanwhile, as the perfume industry was being revived in Soviet Russia, Auguste Michel used his original fragrance to create Red Moscow for the tenth anniversary of the Revolution. Piecing together the intertwined histories of these two famous perfumes, which shared a common origin, Schlögel tells a surprising story of power, intrigue and betrayal that offers an altogether unique perspective on the turbulent events and high politics of the twentieth century. This brilliant account of perfume and politics in twentieth-century Europe will be of interest to a wide general readership.

In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schlögel presents a picture of a country which lies on Europe’s borderland and in Russia’s shadow. In recent years, Ukraine has been faced, along with Western Europe, with the political conundrum resulting from Russia’s actions and the ongoing Information War. As well as exploring this confrontation, Schlögel provides detailed, fascinating historical portraits of a panoply of Ukraine’s major cities: Lviv, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Yalta – cities whose often troubled and war-torn histories are as varied as the nationalities and cultures which have made them what they are today, survivors with very particular identities and aspirations. Schlögel feels the pulse of life in these cities, analysing their more recent pasts and their challenges for the future.

Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this remarkable book, Karl Schlögel unravels the interconnected histories of two of the world's most celebrated perfumes. In tsarist Russia, two French perfumers – Ernest Beaux and Auguste Michel – developed related fragrances honouring Catherine the Great for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Beaux fled Russia and took the formula for his perfume with him to France, where he sought to adapt it to his new French circumstances. He presented Coco Chanel with a series of ten fragrance samples in his laboratory and, after smelling each, she chose number five – the scent that would later go by the name Chanel No. 5. Meanwhile, as the perfume industry was being revived in Soviet Russia, Auguste Michel used his original fragrance to create Red Moscow for the tenth anniversary of the Revolution. Piecing together the intertwined histories of these two famous perfumes, which shared a common origin, Schlögel tells a surprising story of power, intrigue and betrayal that offers an altogether unique perspective on the turbulent events and high politics of the twentieth century. This brilliant account of perfume and politics in twentieth-century Europe will be of interest to a wide general readership.