The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost WorldAn 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 Schlgel, one of the worlds leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the