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Stuck on Communism - Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Stuck on Communism

Memoir of a Russian Historian
Buch | Softcover
216 Seiten
2019
Northern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-4737-3 (ISBN)
CHF 47,10 inkl. MwSt
This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century—from the 1950s when Lewis Siegelbaum's father was a victim of McCarthyism up through the implosion of the Soviet Union and beyond. Siegelbaum recreates journeys of discovery and self-discovery in the tumult of student rebellion...
This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century—from the 1950s when Lewis Siegelbaum's father was a victim of McCarthyism up through the implosion of the Soviet Union and beyond. Siegelbaum recreates journeys of discovery and self-discovery in the tumult of student rebellion at Columbia University during the Vietnam War, graduate study at Oxford, and Moscow at the height of détente. His story takes the reader into the Soviet archives, the coalfields of eastern Ukraine, and the newly independent Uzbekistan.


An intellectual autobiography that is also a biography of the field of Anglophone Soviet history, Stuck on Communism is a guide for how to lead a life on the Left that integrates political and professional commitments. Siegelbaum reveals the attractiveness of Communism as an object of study and its continued relevance decades after its disappearance from the landscape of its origin.


Through the journey of a book that is in the end a romance, Siegelbaum discovers the truth in the notion that no matter what historians take as their subject, they are always writing about themselves.

Lewis H. Siegelbaum is Jack and Margaret Sweet Professor Emeritus of History at Michigan State University. His books include Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935–1941, and the award-winning Cars for Comrades. He co-authored with Jim von Geldern the award-winning website "Seventeen Moments in Soviet History," Stalinism as a Way of Life with Andrei Sokolov, and Broad is My Native Land: Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia's Twentieth Century with Leslie Page Moch.

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Tennis and Communism

2. "Revolutionary or Scholar?"

3. Oxford and Moscow

4. Melbourne and Labor History

5. Labor History and Social History via the Cultural Turn

6. Centers and Peripheries

7. Online and on the Road

8. The Migration Church

Unfinished Thoughts

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Zusatzinfo 9 Halftones, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-5017-4737-1 / 1501747371
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-4737-3 / 9781501747373
Zustand Neuware
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