Terror und Traum. Moskau 1937

Moscow, 1937 – at the height of Stalin’s dictatorship, the city and its society were swept up in a storm of violence. In his historical masterpiece, Karl Schlögel reconstructs, month by month, how the terror of an emergency regime escalated into the “Great Terror,” claiming 1.5 million lives in just one year. But Schlögel goes further, showing how, even in the shadow of fear, the regime sought to build a new society. Drawing on countless documents, he vividly portrays a time when terror and ambition, violence and utopia, were inseparably intertwined.

Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2025