Stuck on Communism

If 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.

~Russian Review

His autobiography is an irresistible page-turner...

~"Beyond the Kremlin" blog

Siegelbaum 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.

~Times Literary Supplement

This engaging autobiography revolves around Lewis Siegelbaum's twin commitments to leftwing politics and the academic study of Soviet history. Above all, Stuck on Communism is valuable for illuminating the personal stakes that animated some of the so-called 'revisionist' scholars of Soviet history.

~Europe-Asia Studies

This memoir can be read as a true confession of love [...] for history and historical craft.

~AB IMPERIO

In 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.

~American Historical Review