Stuck on Communism

Stuck on Communism
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9781501747397
ISBN-13 : 1501747398
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Book Synopsis Stuck on Communism by : Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Download or read book Stuck on Communism written by Lewis H. Siegelbaum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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