The Soviet CenturyArchaeology of a Lost World\nAuthor(s): Karl Schlgel, Rodney Livingstone\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691237299, 978-0691237299\nSynopsis\nAn encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union\n\nThe 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 Schlgel, one of the worlds leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique lost civilization.\n\nA museum ofand travel guide tothe 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 .