Das Versagen - Eine investigative Geschichte der deutschen Russlandpolitik by Katja Gloger
Published 2025 · 593 pages · 163,075 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · Politics & Society, History, Journalism & Reportage
How hard is Das Versagen - Eine investigative Geschichte der deutschen Russlandpolitik to read?
Das Versagen - Eine investigative Geschichte der deutschen Russlandpolitik scores 36 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 35 out of 100
- Investigative journalism written for a general educated German readership, with diplomatic and political terms but no invented language. It sits closer to the clear contemporary prose of Beach Read than to anything ornate.
- Sentence structure: 40 out of 100
- Reviewers describe a sober chronicle, which suggests clear reportorial sentences. Quoted documents and German officialese add some length, but nothing approaches literary hypotaxis.
- Abstraction: 38 out of 100
- The book works through concrete decisions, speeches, files and named politicians, such as Schröder and Nord Stream 2. Its argument about illusions in policy stays tied to events, like the concrete examples in Atomic Habits.
- Information density: 60 out of 100
- Several decades of policy, newly accessible documents, interviews and embargoed Foreign Office files pack many names and episodes into 163,000 words. That makes it richer than Atomic Habits, though far from encyclopedic.
How Das Versagen - Eine investigative Geschichte der deutschen Russlandpolitik is regarded
Das Versagen - Eine investigative Geschichte der deutschen Russlandpolitik holds a literary regard score of 30 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.