Karl Schlögel Libri

Dopo aver percorso i grandi scenari del Novecento in un libro innovativo, Leggere il tempo nello spazio, Karl Schlögel, maestro nell’interrogare fonti storiche inusuali come planimetrie ed elenchi del telefono, architetture e orari ferroviari, si rivolge ora alla nuova Europa, dando voce alle sue città. Le città di Schlögel sono spesso luoghi inattesi, come la lituana Marjampole, dove tutte le automobili del continente si radunano e vengono smistate per la vendita; o Nižnij Novgorod, “capitale intermedia” dell’immensa Russia, sede di esperienze architettoniche sorprendenti; ma anche la Budapest di Lukács e la Košice di Sándor Márai. Oppure sono i grandi centri della modernità – San Pietroburgo e Ginevra, Rotterdam e Napoli, Mosca e Berlino. Città in costante mutamento. Piccoli crogiuoli multietnici e multilinguistici, vere e proprie città bazar. Città vistose e colorate, città esauste, deperite nell’autoisolamento e nella guerra, nelle cui vene scorre però la linfa del futuro. Città vibranti.Il filo che lo storico insegue nel suo dotto passeggiare tra rovine e segni esuberanti del nuovo è quello di una rilevanza non scontata, di un ruolo, talvolta sommerso ma decisivo, che ciascuno dei luoghi attraversati copre nella mappa, che si va disegnando, di un’Europa mutevole e inattesa, dove dialogano storia e geografia, ferite ed esperimenti, cultura e vitalità del nostro continente.

La tragedia della deportazione nazista, raccontata percorrendo gli orari ferroviari dei convogli del Reich. Le tracce del cruento assedio di Sarajevo negli anni novanta, rinvenute in una mappa d'epoca della città. La ricostruzione della politica russa d'inizio Novecento nell'analisi delle sedi di partito e del loro arredamento d'interni. Secondo tali percorsi si muove Karl Schlögel, capace, nei suoi studi innovativi sullo spazio e la storia d'Europa, di ritrovare il senso del passato nei luoghi che di quel passato sono stati teatro. In questo libro si interrogano cartine, atlanti geografici, planimetrie di edifici scomparsi, case aristocratiche, ghetti e hotel di lusso, selciati di marciapiedi, cimiteri, guide del telefono. Si perlustrano i varchi del muro di Berlino e si seguono i passi di Walter Benjamin attraverso i 'passages' parigini e nei labirinti silenziosi delle biblioteche. Il risultato di tali esplorazioni è una storiografia rigorosa quanto inattesa, non limitata all'uso di fonti scritte, ma in grado di interpretare il passato attraverso oggetti concreti; di arricchire, introducendo una nuova dimensione geografica, la tradizionale impostazione cronologica: di leggere il tempo nello spazio.

Twentieth-century Europe, especially Central Eastern Europe, has been largely defined by Russia and Germany. In this century, cultural and economic exchanges between the two countries were as active as the fires of hatred intense. The smaller states in between, with their unstable borders and internal minorities, suffered from the powers' alliances and their antagonisms. This volume of new research in political and cultural history examines the two powers' turbulent relationship, including the pre-1914 era of exchange and cooperation; the projects of modernity in post-revolutionary Russia and Weimar Germany; the struggle for dominance over Central Europe in World War II; and mutual views of Germans and Russians after 1945. In the wake of the crucial events of 1989 and the transformation of German-Russian relations, it asks whether the configuration of Russian-German relations that once dominated twentieth-century Europe has now dissolved, leaving us to find new ways of cooperation between 'New Russia' and 'New Europe'.

Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against oligarchical corruption, the game has become one of life and death. 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 present-day 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, analyzing their more recent pasts and their challenges for the future.

No European city has undergone as much upheaval in the past fifteen years as Moscow. The stage for the fall of a world empire and the rebirth of a globally-connected Russia, Moscow has transformed from a monochrome capital city to a new Babylon iridescent with neon lights. Karl Schlögel's Moscow offers a fascinating and engaging portrait of this international metropolis in transformation. First published in German in 1984, and now rapidly attaining the status of a classic work, this debut English edition of Moscow has been updated with a new introduction and conclusion covering the post-Soviet period. Schlögel describes the modern history of Moscow from various aspects as he explores the city's streets and unearths the rich histories of its buildings, monuments, and parks. A city where the past and future continually clash, Moscow struggles to define its global role in the twenty-first century, and Karl Schlögel's insightful essays in Moscow provide a valuable window into the complex and resilient character of the ever-evolving capital and its citizens.

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin’s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which 1 ½ million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He revisits the sites of show trials and executions and, by also consulting numerous sources from the time, he provides a masterful panorama of these key events in Russian history. He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regime around Stalin also aimed to construct a new society. Based on countless documents, Schlögel’s historical masterpiece vividly presents an age in which the boundaries separating the dream and the terror dissolve, and enables us to experience the fear that was felt by people subjected to totalitarian rule. This rich and absorbing account of the Soviet purges will be essential reading for all students of Russia and for any readers interested in one of the most dramatic and disturbing events of modern history.

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"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."--Amazon.com