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  • Soviet Inflection Points—A Play in Three Acts

  • Lewis H. Siegelbaum
  • Journal:
    International Labor and Working-Class History , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 October 2024, pp. 1-13
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  • 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 opportunities presented by perestroika and glasnost to reconfigure relations and purposes of production before the waves of nationalism and neoliberal market madness washed over the Soviet Union.

Making National Diasporas

Making National Diasporas
  • Soviet-Era Migrations and Post-Soviet Consequences
  • Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Leslie Page Moch
  • Published online:
    11 July 2023
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    03 August 2023
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  • This Element explains the historical conditions for the seemingly anomalous presence of people outside of 'their own' Soviet republic and the sometimes-fraught consequences for them and their post-Soviet host countries. The authors begin their inquiry with an analysis of the most massive displacements of the Stalin era – nationality-based deportations, concluding with examples of the life trajectories of deportees' children as they moved transnationally within the Soviet Union and in its successor states. The second section treats disparate parts of the country as magnets attracting Soviet citizens from far afield. Most were cities undergoing vast industrial expansion; others involved incentive programs to develop agriculture and rural-based industries. The final section is devoted to the history of immigration and emigration during the Soviet period as well as since 1991 when millions left one former Soviet republic for another or for lands farther afield.

  • Transnationalism in One Country? Seeing and Not Seeing Cross-Border Migration within the Soviet Union

  • Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Leslie Page Moch
  • Journal:
    Slavic Review / Volume 75 / Issue 4 / Winter 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 March 2017, pp. 970-986
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    Winter 2016

  • 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 this is due to a double blindness: that of migration scholars to the Soviet Union as a “state of nations,” and that of historians of the Soviet period to migration as a complicating element in the construction of nationality. By emphasizing the transnational dimension of “internal” Soviet migration, we seek to sharpen awareness of how nationality worked in the Soviet context, particularly in its last decades. We thus posit the maintenance of economic, familial and other affective ties across Soviet national boundaries as the Soviet version of transnationalism—transnationalism in one country. We also suggest the ways that despite its well-deserved reputation for limiting international migration and otherwise restricting its citizenry, the Soviet state facilitated transnationalism within its borders.

  • Andrei Konstantinovich Sokolov, 1941-2015

  • J. Arch Getty, Lewis Siegelbaum
  • Journal:
    Slavic Review / Volume 75 / Issue 1 / Spring 2016
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    20 January 2017, pp. 241-243
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    Spring 2016
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Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918–1929
  • Lewis H. Siegelbaum
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    06 January 2010
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    20 August 1992
  • This is the first book to analyse the relationship between the Soviet state and society from the October Revolution of 1917 to the revolution under Stalin of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Professor Lewis Siegelbaum examines the ways in which the promise of a new society made by the 1917 Revolution informed the thinking of those who had experienced the order which preceded it. But how did that old order limit possibilities? How did the new Party leaders, worker activists, artists, and scientists know what to abolish, what to retain, and what to transform? The author explores these questions by tracing the evolution of the ruling Communist Party and its New Economic Policy and the changing fortunes of industrial workers, peasants, and the scientific and cultural intelligentsia. He demonstrates how these different actors sought to appropriate the promise of the 1917 Revolution for their own purposes, highlights the compromises they made, and explains why in the late 1920s these compromises had started to break down.

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