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.
General
| Imprint: |
Northern Illinois University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies |
| Release date: |
October 2019 |
| Authors: |
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
216 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-4737-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-5017-4737-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781501747373 |
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