Stuck on Communism : Memoir of a Russian Historian -Language: Russian. This item is unavailable.Stuck on Communism : Memoir of a Russian Historian -Language: Russian

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.

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.”