Lewis H Siegelbaum
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 329288 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lewis H Siegelbaum |
| PRENOMES | Lewis H |
| SOBRENOME | Siegelbaum |
| ASSINATURA | SIEGELBAUM L H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3417-4052 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 77 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
J. Arch Getty
Soviet Inflection Points—A Play in Three Acts
This article is about contingency and determination. It identifies three “inflection points”—tipping points or points of no return—in the not-so- longue durée of Soviet history: 1929, 1959, and 1989. The article thus reflects on the collectivization of agriculture and associated brutalities; the promise and limitations of Khrushchev’s reforms as well as the appeal—again, limited—of the Soviet Union to the emerging Third World; and the opportuniti…
Region and the War in Ukraine
REGION and the War in Ukraine Lewis Siegelbaum and Sang-Yong Pyo REGION published its first issue thirteen years ago. At that time, very few people imagined that the two largest successor states of the former Soviet Union would square off against each other and from February 2022 pursue full-scale war dwarfing any other on the European continent since 1945. But sadly, that is where we find ourselves now. "We" because although the journal's editor…
Faster
"Faster: how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler’s best." The Historian, 84(1), pp. 85–86
Globalizing Automobilism
Reviewed by: Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980 by Gijs Mom Lewis H. Siegelbaum (bio) Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980 By Gijs Mom. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. Pp. 666. The second of what will be a three-volume set, Globalizing Automobilism expands upon themes, ideas, and peeves introduced in Gijs Mom's Atlantic Automobilism (Berghahn, 2015…
Bumping Up Against Ukraine as a Historian of Russia
Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - Volume 10, Number 1, January 2021
Moving beyond Expectations
Stuck on Communism
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 déte…
Claire L. Shaw. Deaf in the USSR
William O. McCagg, a historian of Habsburg Hungary, once observed that under long-dominant positivist notions, the disabled were “the last element in society to receive social-scientific consideration on [their] own terms.” This was because unlike other subaltern groups, they could not be expected to “adopt or catch up to the values and behavioral patterns of the ‘normal’ middle classes of industrial society.” McCagg, whose late-onset deafness le…
Escaping in Twentieth-Century Russia
This article considers the escapees who populated Russia’s twentieth century in astonishingly large numbers. By escapees, the authors mean not only those who had been incarcerated, exiled, and deported, but also others who ignored or willfully violated regulations limiting movement – peasant settlers moving “irregularly” to scarcely-populated or recently depopulated areas; seasonal workers making independent employment arrangements; migrants to t…
Class and Sport
The history of sport can be considered an arena in which struggles over ways of doing things have worked themselves out, sometimes to the advantage of one class but occasionally to the benefit—or detriment—of more than one class. Sport has its antitheses—amateur versus professional, competitive versus noncompetitive, the individual versus the team—each of which contains class dimensions. In this chapter, players, fans, owners, governing bodies, a…
Moving People during the Great Patriotic War
Moving people during war is what states do and have done since there have been states. This article attempts to specify what was peculiar to the Soviet state in moving its own civilian population during the Great Patriotic War (1941–45). It focuses on two categories of civilians defined by the state according to its determination of loyalty and utility to the war effort: evacuees and deportees. The article proceeds along the lines of three compar…
The ‘flood’ of 1945
The pioneering migration scholar Eugene Kulischer employed the metaphor of the ‘flood’ to characterize the movement of peoples across Eurasia at the end of the Second World War. This article builds on that metaphor by analysing the range of Soviet citizens’ migratory movements within and back to the USSR in 1945. It pays special attention to settlers, deportees, returning evacuees, repatriates, demobilized soldiers and itinerants. Not only did th…
Paradise or Just a Little Bit Better? Siberian Settlement “Fever” in Late Imperial Russia
Why did the lands east of the Urals–long associated by Russians with the hard labor of convicts, fearsome nomads, and an unbearable climate–attract so many Russian peasant settlers at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Historians usually cite a combination of push‐pull factors. They represent migration as a consequence of stagnation in the agrarian economy (push) and state policies promoting migration (pull), rather than int…
Stephen Lovell. Russia in the Microphone Age
Radio is among our most taken-for-granted media. During its early decades, however, radio technology inspired fantastical visions of a world knit together by voice transmission, and, in the 1920s and 1930s, its role in bringing national communities into being arguably was as great as the print capitalism that Benedict Anderson famously cited. In the 1950s and 1960s, the combination of the thickening of the airwaves and the popularity of lighter, …
Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing and Not Seeing Cross-Border Migration within the Soviet Union
In the early 1990s social scientists began to refer to migrants who retained familial and economic ties with their country of origin as transnational. The term eventually gained currency among historians who had found multiple examples of such ties in earlier decades and centuries. Although migrants traveling among former Soviet republics came to be understood as transnational, Soviet-era migrants never have been so characterized. We contend that…
Andrei Konstantinovich Sokolov, 1941-2015
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The Journal Region
Amerikanskii biznes i Sovetskii Soiuz v 1920–1930-e gody
Reviewed by: Amerikanskii biznes i Sovetskii Soiuz v 1920–1930-e gody: Labirinty ekonomicheskogo sotrudnichestva by B. M. Shpotov Lewis H. Siegelbaum B. M. Shpotov. Amerikanskii biznes i Sovetskii Soiuz v 1920–1930-e gody: Labirinty ekonomicheskogo sotrudnichestva. 320 pp. Moscow: LIBROKOM, 2013. ISBN 9785397037235. About two-thirds of the way through Boris Shpotov’s brilliantly conceived and executed account of American-Soviet business relations…
Gender, Geography, and Punishment
Reviewed by: Gender, Geography, and Punishment: The Experience of Women in Carceral Russia by Judith Pallot and Laura Piacentini Lewis H. Siegelbaum (bio) Judith Pallot and Laura Piacentini, Gender, Geography, and Punishment: The Experience of Women in Carceral Russia. 290 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780199658619. What is peculiar about the incarceration of women in Russia? The question, at the heart of this fascinating study…
An Auspiciously "Glocal" Beginning
The launching of a new journal is, like that of most bold projects, an exercise in optimism. Never quite sure what to expect “out there,” one hopes never ⴀ૰‐ȁ theless that the environment proves conducive to the success of the mission. In launching Region and devoting its first issue to “The Second Decade of Post ⴀ૰‐ȁCommunism,” the editors have embarked on a scholarly mission in ⴀ૰‐ȁ spired by earlier endeavors, yet departing from them as well. …
Whither Soviet History
The past decade and a half has been an extraordinarily productive time for the generation of scholarship on Soviet history by Anglophone historians. Much of this period has been dominated by the productive interface between so-called post-revisionist historians whose formative experience was as graduate students at Columbia University and what I refer to as the Chicago School situated around Sheila Fitzpatrick and Ronald Suny. The three main them…
Mark Pittaway, The Worker ́s State
Mark Pittaway uses “the worker’s state” ironically, much as Miklós Haraszti did in a similarly titled book, to underscore feelings of alienation and powerlessness among socialist Hungary’s industrial workers. But unlike Haraszti’s slim volume, a sociographic account of his own experience working at Budapest’s Red Star Tractor Factory in the early 1970s, Pittaway’s is squarely in the tradition of the “new” labor history that arose in Great Britain…
Sputnik Goes to Brussels
The first universal exhibition of the post-Second World War era and a major battleground in the ‘cultural Cold War’, the 1958 Brussels Exposition served as an appropriate venue for the display of Sputniks I and II. As the centerpiece of the enormous Soviet pavilion, the Sputnik replicas enabled the USSR to bask in the reflective glow of its scientific and technological achievement before an international audience of 40 million. Based on archival …
The Socialist Car
The Cultural Front
When Lenin asked, Who will beat whom? (Kto kogo?), he had no plan to wage revolutionary class war in culture. Many young Communists thought differently, however. Seeking in name of proletariat to wrest hegemony from intelligentsia, they turned culture into a battlefield in 1920s. But was this, as Communist militants thought, a genuine class struggle between proletarian Communists and bourgeois intelligentsia? Or was it, as intelligentsia believed…
Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia-From Lenin to Gorbachev
Another 'Yellow Peril
The description provided by John Foster Fraser, a British journalist wandering through Siberia and Manchuria in the autumn of 1901, is of Khabarovsk, a town of some fifteen thousand people. Such scenes were not peculiar to Khabarovsk at the turn of the century, but could be witnessed in other towns throughout the Russian Far East such as Chita, Blagoveshchensk, Nikol'sk-Ussuriiskii, and Vladivostok. Who were these 'weak, withered-faced' Chinese t…
Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing and Not Seeing Cross-Border Migration within the Soviet Union
In the early 1990s social scientists began to refer to migrants who retained familial and economic ties with their country of origin as transnational. The term eventually gained currency among historians who had found multiple examples of such ties in earlier decades and centuries. Although migrants traveling among former Soviet republics came to be understood as transnational, Soviet-era migrants never have been so characterized. We contend that…
Stalin's Industrial Revolution
Part 1 1927-1928: From NEP to the socialist offensive. Part 2 1928-1929: The purges of the apparatus the shake-up of industrial enterprizes the crisis of proletarian identity the emergence of new proletarian forces. Part 3 1930: Industrialization in crisis the Troika and Mass politics the transformation of the labour market conflict and cohesion among the workers. Part 4 1930-1931: Toward the restoration of order epilogue and conclusion. Appendix…
Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1931-1941
Production Collectives and Communes and the "Imperatives" of Soviet Industrialization, 1929-1931
There cannot be any doubt that the confusion in the minds of individual Party members concerning Marxian socialism and their infatuation with the egalitarian tendencies of agricultural communes are as like as two peas to the petty bourgeois views of our "Leftist" blockheads, who at one time idealized the agricultural communes to such an extent that they even tried to implant the commune in the factories, where skilled and unskilled worker, each w…
Soviet norm determination in theory and practice, 1917–1941
Sputnik Goes to Brussels
The first universal exhibition of the post-Second World War era and a major battleground in the ‘cultural Cold War’, the 1958 Brussels Exposition served as an appropriate venue for the display of Sputniks I and II. As the centerpiece of the enormous Soviet pavilion, the Sputnik replicas enabled the USSR to bask in the reflective glow of its scientific and technological achievement before an international audience of 40 million. Based on archival …
The Disabled in the Soviet Union
Freedom of prices and the price of freedom
The coal‐miners' movement played a signficant role in the collapse of the Soviet Union and the evolution of state policy towards the mining industries of post‐Soviet Russia and Ukraine. The movement was animated by the historically unique condition of the mining industry as a ‘planned loss’ sector. Gorbachev presented fresh opportunities for revising this condition, and the rhetoric of marketization and privatization was construed by miners as pr…
Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941
The ‘flood’ of 1945
The pioneering migration scholar Eugene Kulischer employed the metaphor of the ‘flood’ to characterize the movement of peoples across Eurasia at the end of the Second World War. This article builds on that metaphor by analysing the range of Soviet citizens’ migratory movements within and back to the USSR in 1945. It pays special attention to settlers, deportees, returning evacuees, repatriates, demobilized soldiers and itinerants. Not only did th…
The Shaping of Soviet Workers' Leisure
In his recent ethnographic history of the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island, Bruce Grant employs the “Soviet House of Culture” as a metaphor of cultural construction and the “hybrid identities produced by the Soviet state.”Bruce Grant, In the Soviet House of Culture (Princeton, 1995), xi. Yuri Slezkine's rendition of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) as a communal apartment (kommunalka), where each national group had its own room but shared …
Paradise or Just a Little Bit Better? Siberian Settlement “Fever” in Late Imperial Russia
Why did the lands east of the Urals–long associated by Russians with the hard labor of convicts, fearsome nomads, and an unbearable climate–attract so many Russian peasant settlers at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Historians usually cite a combination of push‐pull factors. They represent migration as a consequence of stagnation in the agrarian economy (push) and state policies promoting migration (pull), rather than int…
Dear Comrade, You Ask What We Need
In theirDictatorship over Needs, Ferenc Fehér, Agnes Heller, and Gyorgy Markus sought to analyze the nature of domination and subordination in Soviet-type societies in terms of the direct administration of production and distribution by a self-selecting corporate ruling group. This dictatorship, initially justified by the interests of the proletariat and the party's self-assigned role as its vanguard, was perpetuated not merely by coercion but al…
Perestroika from Below
In the wave of social activism that has washed over the Soviet Union in recent years, the strike by some 400,000 coal miners in the summer of 1989 may be the most poorly understood of events. Inter-ethnic conflict in the Caucasus, the movements toward independence in the Baltic
Socialist Competition and Socialist Construction in the USSR
On the Side
Accommodating itself to private ownership of automobiles relatively late in the twentieth century, the Soviet government did not make it easy for motorists to obtain what they needed to keep their cars in working order. In fact, it was almost impossible for them to do so without violating the canons of Communist morality, to say nothing of Soviet law. The shortage of spare parts, fuel, repair services, legally sanctioned garage space, and other a…
Roadlessness and the ‘Path to Communism’
This article discusses how the construction and maintenance of roads within the Soviet Union of the 1920s helped to support two major Stalinist aims – collective farming and mass industrialization. The author notes that in 1927, the Soviet Union counted less than 20,000 vehicles, including both trucks and automobiles. In addition, Soviet factories produced only a few hundred vehicles annually. Moreover, the czarist era national road network, esta…
The Late Romance of the Soviet Worker in Western Historiography
This essay is animated by a single, seemingly simple, question: "What has happened to Soviet labor and working-class history?" The obvious answer is that it went the way of the Soviet working class. But to attribute changing scholarly interests or emphases to recent or contemporary Russian politics is too simplistic. It ignores too many other factors that impinge on why and how we study what we do. While the near disappearance of class from post-…
Soviet Car Rallies of the 1920s and 1930s and the Road to Socialism
Rallying, which originated in France soon after the birth of the automobile, has remained a popular sport in Europe and elsewhere, serving to showcase developments in automotive technology and the skillfulness of professional drivers. These, in addition to demonstrating the variety of road conditions and peoples within the country and choosing the most appropriate vehicle to import, were the main objectives of the all-Russian (1923) and all-Union…
The Condition of Labor in Post-Soviet Russia
Labor (meaning both wage workers as well as their collective representation) in Russia was a major loser in the decade following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Aggregate data on prices, average wage and pension levels, wage arrears, and unemployment indicate a serious decline in workers’ standard of living that is unprecedented in the post-World War II era, while strike data show an upsurge in this form of worker militancy during the mid-1990s…
Historicizing everyday life under Communism
Making the Command Economy
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Moscow Industrialists and the War-Industries Committes During World War I
Another 'Yellow Peril
The description provided by John Foster Fraser, a British journalist wandering through Siberia and Manchuria in the autumn of 1901, is of Khabarovsk, a town of some fifteen thousand people. Such scenes were not peculiar to Khabarovsk at the turn of the century, but could be witnessed in other towns throughout the Russian Far East such as Chita, Blagoveshchensk, Nikol'sk-Ussuriiskii, and Vladivostok. Who were these 'weak, withered-faced' Chinese t…
Peasant Disorders and the Myth of the Tsar
The Workers' Groups and the War-Industries Committees
The Cheka
Socialist Competition and Socialist Construction in the USSR
The Politics of Industrial Mobilization in Russia, 1914–17
The First World War necessitated not only the mobilization of troops, but the industrial resources of all the Great Powers. This book analyses the political constraints and ramifications of industrial mobilization in Russia. It focuses on the War-Industries Committees, an organization founded in 1915 ostensibly to assist in the war effort but also incorporating the aspirations of the Russian industrial bourgeoisie for greater control over the adm…
The Politics of Industrial Mobilization in Russia, 1914-17
Soviet norm determination in theory and practice, 1917–1941
State' versus 'Society' in Tsarist and Soviet History
Research Article| May 01 1984 'State' versus 'Society' in Tsarist and Soviet History Lewis H. Siegelbaum; Lewis H. Siegelbaum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michael Morgan Michael Morgan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 90–112. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1984-28-30-90 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lewi…
The Politics of Industrial Mobilization in Russia, 1914-1917
The First World War necessitated not only the mobilization of troops, but the industrial resources of all the Great Powers.This book analyses the political constraints and ramifications of industrial mobilization in Russia.It focuses on the War-Industries Committees, an organization founded in 1915 ostensibly to assist in the war effort but also incorporating the aspirations of the Russian industrial bourgeoisie for greater control over the admin…
The Making of Stakhanovites, 1935-36
Production Collectives and Communes and the "Imperatives" of Soviet Industrialization, 1929-1931
There cannot be any doubt that the confusion in the minds of individual Party members concerning Marxian socialism and their infatuation with the egalitarian tendencies of agricultural communes are as like as two peas to the petty bourgeois views of our "Leftist" blockheads, who at one time idealized the agricultural communes to such an extent that they even tried to implant the commune in the factories, where skilled and unskilled worker, each w…
The Politics of Industrial Mobilization in Russia, 1914-17
The First World War necessitated not only the mobilization of troops, but the industrial resources of all the Great Powers.This book analyses the political constraints and ramifications of industrial mobilization in Russia.It focuses on the War-Industries Committees, an organization founded in 1915 ostensibly to assist in the war effort but also incorporating the aspirations of the Russian industrial bourgeoisie for greater control over the admin…
Zarozhdenie i razvitie stakhanovskogo dvizheniia
Stalin's Industrial Revolution
Part 1 1927-1928: From NEP to the socialist offensive. Part 2 1928-1929: The purges of the apparatus the shake-up of industrial enterprizes the crisis of proletarian identity the emergence of new proletarian forces. Part 3 1930: Industrialization in crisis the Troika and Mass politics the transformation of the labour market conflict and cohesion among the workers. Part 4 1930-1931: Toward the restoration of order epilogue and conclusion. Appendix…
Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941
Historical Revisionism in the USSR
Research Article| May 01 1989 Historical Revisionism in the USSR Lewis H. Siegelbaum Lewis H. Siegelbaum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (44): 32–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-44-32 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lewis H. Siegelbaum; Historical Revisionism in the USSR. Radical History Review 1 May 1989; 1989 (44): 32–61. doi: https:…
Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1931-1941
Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941
Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia-From Lenin to Gorbachev
Perestroika from Below
In the wave of social activism that has washed over the Soviet Union in recent years, the strike by some 400,000 coal miners in the summer of 1989 may be the most poorly understood of events. Inter-ethnic conflict in the Caucasus, the movements toward independence in the Baltic
Workers in Stalin's Russia. Industrialization and Social Change in a Planned Economy
We'll Remain in This Cesspool for a Long Time”
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLewis H. SiegelbaumLewis H. Siegelbaum, Professor of Russian History at Michigan State University, and Daniel J. Walkowitz, Professor of History and Director of the Metropolitan Studies Program at New York University, have been documenting and studying the political and social transformation in the Donbass from 1988. The 1991 interviews presented here were conducted as part of research following up the p…
The Disabled in the Soviet Union
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