Stuck on Communism

H. Siegelbaum Lewis

Description

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.

Sujets

• Former Soviet Union
• Philosophie et théologie
• Post-Soviet states
• Memoir
• Russia
• Russie

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501747397
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

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STUCK ON COMMUNISM

A vôumé n é NïU sééŝ n SLAVIC, EAST EUROPEAN, AND EURASIAN STUDIES edéd by Cŝné D. wôôbéc

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STUCKON COMMUNISM

Memoir of a Russian Historian

Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Nôén ïnôŝ Unvéŝy Péŝŝ an mpn ô Côné Unvéŝy Péŝŝ ïaca and ôndôn

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Côvé maé: sudén ïD cad, auô’ŝ côécôn.

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CONTENTS

Péacé and Acknôédménŝ x

ïnôducôn 1

Ténnŝ and Cômmunŝm 6

“révôuônay ô scôa?” 21

3. oxôd and Môŝcô 37

4. Mébôuné and abô Hŝôy 60

5. abô Hŝôy and sôca Hŝôy va é Cuua Tun 82

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Cénéŝ and Pépééŝ 111

onné and ôn é rôad 131

8. hé Maôn Cuc 159

Unînŝéd hôuŝ 167

Nôéŝ 171

ïndéx 195

ï’m aways înkîng Russîa,  ï can’ keep er ou of my ead, ï don’ gîve a damn for unce Sam,  ï am a et-wîng radîca Red. —H. H. éŝ, “hnkn ô ruŝŝa,” 1932

One es mîg be weer, as e years pass, you come ou beer from your own sory, or worse. —Juan Banéŝ,he Ony Sory

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

wén ŝ  mé ô é ôné’ŝ mémôŝ? Maybé névé, unéŝŝ ôné ŝ ŝô môvéd. Môé pécŝéy,  m bé én yôu ŝ nk yôu avé ŝômén ô ŝay and ôpé a ôéŝ  bé ŝuicény cuôuŝ ô éan a  ŝ. ï décdéd ô vé  a ô én, abôu ô éé, ï côudn’ acé bén ééd. ï backéd nô . Pômpéd by é ŝu- éŝôn ô a énd ô ŝa éman anônymôuŝ ô pu ôéé a côécôn ô my acéŝ pubŝéd n é éyday ô abô ŝôy, ï ŝaéd ôu n an accômpa- nyn nôducôn. Pôô ô ŝ ôn ŝôy ŝ a é é ï avé é Mcôŝôt wôd dôcumén ôdé cônann é mémô ŝ ŝ “abô Hŝôy (my).” ïn é mdŝ ô n a nôducôn, nŝ ŝô ô ô aay ôm mé. Béôé ï kné , ï aŝ back n aduaé ŝcôô, én côéé, én an évén môé caô yôu. A, yôu m nk, ŝuc ŝ é ay  ŝôanŝ—aayŝ éxpann ŝômé- n by ŝ anécédénŝ. Nô ŝ ŝôan. ï dôn’ évé éca néndn ô é abôu a ŝubjéc and én puŝéd back néxôaby ô an éaé mé. Un nô. ï avé éad a ŝuicén numbé ô mémôŝ ô knô a é ônéŝ a ôk béŝ aé nô mééy éécvé ô, n cuén nô, ŝé-ééxvé, bu éécvé abôu é ŝé-ééxvy. héy aŝk émŝévéŝ nô ôny “y dd ï dô ô nk ŝ,” bu “ô dd my dôn ô nkn ŝ aféc mé?” ï dôn’ knô  ŝ mémô  ôk, bu pécn ôéé my é aŝ a ŝôan ô ruŝŝan and sôvé ŝôy aŝ béén a aŝcnan éxpééncé ô ŝ auô, bô ŝaŝyn and umbn. ï dŝcôvééd muc ï ddn’ knô abôu éŝ séébaum. Bu énôu abôu mé. Héé, ï an ô acknôédé é éncôuaémén and aŝŝŝancé ï écévéd aôn é ay. oné ô é aŝkŝ aŝŝuméd by ôŝé ô uŝ n é académy ŝ ô ŝévé aŝ an anônymôuŝ éadé ô pubŝéŝ ŝéékn éxpéŝ’ npu abôu éé a manu- ŝcp ŝ ôy ô pubcaôn and ô  can bé mpôvéd. ï avé dôné ŝ many méŝ, many bécauŝé  ŝééméd a ôôd ay ô éann abôu né ôk. ï aŝô avé bénéîéd ôm ôéŝ’ éadn ô my ŝubméd ôk. Bu  aŝ nô un ï écévéd é éadéŝ’ épôŝ ôn ŝ manuŝcp a ï éazéd é avé béén énan n a énunéy cômmunŝ—a ŝ, écpôcay bénéîca—paccé a nvôvéŝ né- é mônéay an (ôé an é nômna émôumén pad by é pubŝé éé n cuéncy ô bôôkŝ) nô éô énancémén. wé dô  cônŝcénôuŝy bécauŝé é an ôu manuŝcpŝ éad  é ŝamé dééé ô cônŝcénôuŝnéŝŝ. wé dô 