Books by Karl Schlögel, Rodney Livingstone

The author is Karl Schlögel, and the subtitle is Archaeology of a Lost World .  Who else could have a whole chapter on Soviet-era doorknobs?  This is a fascinating book about the material loose ends, the pamphlets, the clothes, the non-existent phone books, the shop signs, the chest medals, and the bric-a-brac — among many other items — of the Soviet Union.  Excerpt: