Stuck on Communism : : Memoir of a Russian Historian / / Lewis H. Siegelbaum.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 9 b&w halftones |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501747397 9783110649826 9783110651980 9783110610765 9783110664232 9783110610178 9783110606195 |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501747397 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Lewis H. Siegelbaum. |