{"id":14990,"date":"2026-09-24T08:57:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/?post_type=kreisky_event&#038;p=14990"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:04:34","slug":"the-key-would-still-fit","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/der-schluessel-wuerde-noch-passen","title":{"rendered":"THE KEY WOULD STILL FIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Memories of Moscow | A prominent opposition figure on Russia\u2019s history and politics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The new book by the renowned and multi-award-winning historian, journalist and author Irina Scherbakowa \u2013 shortlisted for the 2026 German Non-Fiction Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00bbThis book, with all the courageous people \u2013 both great and small \u2013 who feature in it, is not just brilliantly written. It inspires hope.\u00ab From the citation for the nomination for the 2026 German Non-Fiction Prize<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00bbOne of the 10 best non-fiction books of 2025.\u00ab&nbsp;<em>Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 3 December 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In *The Key Would Still Fit*, Irina Scherbakova recounts the brief years of perestroika. She describes everyday life and the political upheaval in Moscow and the countryside in the early 1990s. She depicts the unfamiliar freedom and how people learned, with some difficulty, to cope with it. Scherbakova also explores her own ongoing political activism and Russia\u2019s seemingly unstoppable slide into dictatorship. \u00a0Her impressive recollections of Moscow are closely interwoven with the history of Russia in the 20th century and her lifelong struggle against state terror and in defence of remembrance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Irina Scherbakowa <\/strong>is one of Russia\u2019s most prominent opposition figures. She is a co-founder of the human rights organisation Memorial, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cathrin Kahlweit<\/strong>, a long-standing correspondent for the *SZ*, journalist and presenter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.droemer-knaur.de\/buch\/irina-scherbakowa-der-schluessel-wuerde-noch-passen-9783426446669\">The key would still fit<\/a><br>Droemer Knaur<br>25,00 \u20ac<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moskauer Erinnerungen | Die bedeutende Oppositionelle \u00fcber Russlands Geschichte und Politik Das neue Buch der renommierten und vielfach ausgezeichneten Historikerin, Publizistin und Schriftstellerin Irina Scherbakowa - Nominiert f\u00fcr den Deutschen Sachbuchpreis 2026 \u00bbDieses Buch, mit all den mutigen gro\u00dfen und kleinen Menschen, die darin vorkommen, ist nicht nur gro\u00dfartig geschrieben. Es macht Hoffnung.\u00ab Aus der [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14992,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[],"class_list":["post-14990","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DER SCHL\u00dcSSEL W\u00dcRDE NOCH PASSEN - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/the-key-would-still-fit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DER SCHL\u00dcSSEL W\u00dcRDE NOCH PASSEN - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Moskauer Erinnerungen | Die bedeutende Oppositionelle \u00fcber Russlands Geschichte und Politik Das neue Buch der renommierten und vielfach ausgezeichneten Historikerin, Publizistin und Schriftstellerin Irina Scherbakowa - Nominiert f\u00fcr den Deutschen Sachbuchpreis 2026 \u00bbDieses Buch, mit all den mutigen gro\u00dfen und kleinen Menschen, die darin vorkommen, ist nicht nur gro\u00dfartig geschrieben. 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