Archeology of communism

In the book The Archeology of Communism, the famous historian Karl Schlögel brings up forgotten markers of everyday life in Soviet times: the queue, communal apartment, parades and demonstrations, wrapping paper, deficit, palm tree in the lobbies of ministries, the voice of the speaker Levitan. Variety… The author, not burdened with the burden of naive nostalgia for the "bright past", reveals the absurdity and danger hidden behind these phenomena: blurring the line between private and public, real and fictitious, human and imposed system. For a long time they were ignored, in fact, they help to combine different facets of Soviet reality, its landmarks and everyday life. Finally, the analysis of Soviet everyday life has another purpose for the author: "We are interested not only in what Russian was in the twentieth century, but we would like to receive information or at least some evidence of the current state of affairs in modern Russia."