Moscow, 1937 [Original retail ed.] 0745650767, 978-0745650760

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin’s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of

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English Pages 674 Year 16 Oct 2013

Moscow, 1937 [Original retail ed.]
0745650767, 978-0745650760

Commentary
"Karl Schlögel’s Moscow 1937 draws a living, multi-dimensional portrait of the megacity in a crucial year of upheaval that evokes all the hope, despair, creativity, horror, escapism, terror, fear, and striving that enveloped the Muscovite cityscape and its inhabitants. Schlögel is an unusually inventive historian and a brilliant stylist; it’s a great boon to have his latest work available in English." Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University and author of Stalin’s Genocides

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