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 detente. 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.
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STUCKONCOMMUNISM
Memoir of a Russian Historian
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Nôén ïnôŝ Unvéŝy Péŝŝ an mpn ô Côné Unvéŝy Péŝŝ ïaca and ôndôn
ï’m aways înkîng Russîa, ï can’ keep er ou of my ead, ï don’ gîve a damn for unce Sam, ï am a et-wîng radîca Red. —H. H. éŝ, “hnkn ô ruŝŝa,” 1932
One es mîg be weer, as e years pass, you come ou beer from your own sory, or worse. —Juan Banéŝ,he Ony Sory