Karl Schlögel

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.

He reflected on this chapter in his life in the volume "Partei kaputt: Das Scheitern der KPD und die Krise der Linken" (Party kaputt: The failure of the West German Communist Party and the crisis of the Left.).

[1] In 1982-1983 he went to the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University on a research fellowship of the German academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

On his return he worked as freelance as translator and author, writing also for many German newspapers and journals.

[4][5] He is the author of numerous highly acclaimed monographs and the winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for non-fiction in 2018 for his most recent work.