{"product_id":"stuck-on-communism-memoir-of-a-russian-historian-paperback-softback-9781501747373","title":"Stuck on Communism; Memoir of a Russian Historian (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501747373","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStuck on Communism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMemoir of a Russian Historian\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLewis H. Siegelbaum (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501747373\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 November 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages, 9 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 9 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf a young scholar wants to glimpse a life as a historian, the course of a career unvarnished by nostalgia, if she wants to understand the shortfalls, lost paths, and self-doubt, as well as the jet-setting, keynote triumphs, this book is a must-read.\u003c\/p\u003e (Russian Review) \u003cp\u003eHis autobiography is an irresistible page-turner...\u003c\/p\u003e (\"Beyond the Kremlin\" blog) \u003cp\u003eSiegelbaum brings many tools of the historian's craft to his disarmingly frank, often self-deprecating autobiographical story of change amid consistency...[A] new generation of Russia experts should find Siegelbaum's intellectual odyssey compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e (Times Literary Supplement) \u003cp\u003eThis engaging autobiography revolves around Lewis Siegelbaum's twin commitments to leftwing politics and the academic study of Soviet history. Above all, \u003ci\u003eStuck on Communism\u003c\/i\u003e is valuable for illuminating the personal stakes that animated some of the so-called 'revisionist' scholars of Soviet history.\u003c\/p\u003e (Europe-Asia Studies) \u003cp\u003eThis memoir can be read as a true confession of love [...] for history and historical craft.\u003c\/p\u003e (AB IMPERIO) \u003cp\u003eIn Siegelbaum's books and articles, there is never an acceptance of the world as it has become, but an enduring faith that alternatives exist and that history is a practice capable of informing us of different possible futures.\u003c\/p\u003e (American Historical Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003edétente\u003c\/i\u003e. His story takes the reader into the Soviet archives, the coalfields of eastern Ukraine, and the newly independent Uzbekistan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn intellectual autobiography that is also a biography of the field of Anglophone Soviet history, \u003ci\u003eStuck on Communism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tennis and Communism\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Revolutionary or Scholar?\"\u003cbr\u003e 3. Oxford and Moscow\u003cbr\u003e 4. Melbourne and Labor History\u003cbr\u003e 5. Labor History and Social History via the Cultural Turn\u003cbr\u003e 6. Centers and Peripheries\u003cbr\u003e 7. Online and on the Road\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Migration Church\u003cbr\u003e Unfinished Thoughts\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607789269272,"sku":"9781501747373","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/stuck-on-communism-memoir-of-a-russian-historian-paperback-softback-9781501747373","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}