Promenade in Jalta und andere Städtebilder

by Karl Schlögel

Karl Schlögel, Publizist und Professor für Osteuropäische Geschichte, hat über die Welt im Osten, ihre Menschen, ihre Ideen und ihre Geschichte geschrieben. (The East is far discovered. Konigsberg and Chernivtsi, Lviv and Odessa, the great rivers and the wide open spaces - Karl Schlögel, journalist and professor of Eastern European history, has written about the world in the East, their people, their ideas and their history.)

311 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Karl Schlögel (born 7 March 1948 in Hawangen, Bavaria, Germany) is a noted German historian of Eastern Europe who specialises in modern Russia, the history of Stalinism, the Russian diaspora and dissident movements, Eastern European cultural history and theoretical problems of historical narration.

Reviews

[Frank · Rating 5 out of 5]

Großartig. Geschichtsschreibung a la Benjamin vom Feinsten.

[Noah · Rating 2 out of 5]

A charming collection of short essays, portraying various cities in eastern Europe. The book is strong where the author analyses the genius loci vis-a-vis the historic context and where develops a view on central European history from past transit routes (Yalta,Odessa, Vilnius etc.). It is weak and partially quite lengthy where the author dwells exclusively on the past and forgets the city he wants to portray over the historic context and where he extensively quotes past authors and travel guides (Lodz, Riga, Kalinigrad etc.).

[Rina]

Schlogel came to give a lecture at school yesterday. Writes on topography and historiography, the "simultaneity of dis-simultaneity," in reference to modern Russian history. Influenced by Walter Benjamin, Carl Schorske. Very interesting--will read soon, hopefully.