
Stuck on Communism
Memoir of a Russian Historian
Lewis Siegelbaum(Author)
Academic Studies Press
Published on 7. July 2020
Book
Hardback
306 pages
978-1-64469-358-2 (ISBN)
Description
This subject of this memoir is why and how history and communism combined to animate and shape the life of a New York-born, Jewish American whose father joined the Communist Party of the United States in 1939. It spans three continents and roughly half a century dominated by the ideologies at the heart of the Cold War. It recreates journeys of discovery and self-discovery, first as an undergraduate at Columbia University, then a graduate student at Oxford, and then in Soviet archives, the coalfields of eastern Ukraine, and newly independent Uzbekistan. The memoir reveals not only fascination with but also affection for the Soviet people as they contended with actually existing communism and its supersession.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Brighton
United States
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64469-358-2 (9781644693582)
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Lewis Siegelbaum is an historian of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. He retired in 2018 after teaching history first in Australia and then at Michigan State University. He is the author of dozens of scientific articles and several books and co-author of the authoritative Internet portal "Seventeen Moments of Soviet History."