Germany & Russia

"Vergessen Sie nicht, daß Sie sich in Rußland befinden. Vergessen Sie das nie und trauen Sie keinem!" (Der Weg der Tränen, Oskar und Anita Iden-Zeller 1926)

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Schloegel strikes again!

Karl Schloegel. A name like thunder. Well. At least a very active chronist and analyst of the German-Russian relations and of the history of the Soviet Union. Almost every year, Mr. Schloegel is issuing a new historical cornerstone analysis. His books on the "Russian Berlin" and on St.Petersburg have found wide applause and recognition. He lectures at the Viadrina university in Frankfurt/Oder.

(Big Schloegel is watching you. Courtesy of Viadrina)

Now a new volume stands on the shelf of bookstores : Moscow 1937 - Terror and Dream. The Deutschlandradio published a Podcast Interview with him.

During a time in which Russia develops a more revisionist perspective on its own history, publications like these of Schloegel would offer a true and revealing image on how oppressive the Stalin and Soviet times were. However we might see interested readers on Novy Arbat's Dom Knigi search in vain for such works.

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