Lewis H. Siegelbaum

About the Author

Lewis H. Siegelbaum is Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is the author of several books, including Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929, and the editor most recently of Borders of Socialism: Private Spheres of Soviet Russia.

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Works by Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile (2008) 26 copies, 1 review

Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929 (1992) 17 copies

Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity (1994) — Editor; Contributor — 16 copies

Social Dimensions of Soviet Industrialization (1993) — Editor — 10 copies

The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc (2011) 9 copies

Stuck on Communism: Memoir of a Russian Historian (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) (2019) 8 copies

Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (1988) 7 copies

Broad Is My Native Land: Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia's Twentieth Century (2014) 6 copies

Borders of Socialism: Private Spheres of Soviet Russia (2006) 4 copies

The Disabled in the Soviet Union: Past and Present, Theory and Practice (1989) 4 copies

Workers of the Donbass Speak: Survival and Identity in the New Ukraine, 1989-1992 (1995) 2 copies

The Politics of Industrial Mobilization in Russia, 1915-1917: A Study of the War-Industries Committees (1984) 1 copy

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Associated Works

Stalinism: New Directions (1999) — Contributor — 27 copies

Stalinism : its nature and aftermath : essays in honour of Moshe Lewin (1992) — Contributor — 4 copies

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Other names: Siegelbaum, Lewis Henry
Birthdate: 1949-01-28
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Education: Oxford University (PhD|Philosophy|1976)
Occupations: Historian
Organizations: Michigan State University

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Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile by Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Although slightly dated, I found this this to be a worthwhile examination of the tortured relationship of the Soviet regime with the motorcar, as while the auto was too useful to overlook the logistical demands that cars made and the "anti-social" mentalities it bred tended to bring out the worst in the Soviet system. As for what's covered, the author devotes chapters to the main auto makers ZIL (producer of limousines for the Soviet elite), GAZ (producer of cars for the general run of Soviet drivers into the 1970s) and VAZ (meant to be a genuine people's car and one of the last expressions of the Soviet adventure of social transformation via production). This is before Siegelbaum considers the logistics and meaning of the automobile in the Soviet Union and into the Russia of the 2000s.… (more)

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