31 subscribers
¡Desconecta con la aplicación Player FM !
Podcasts que vale la pena escuchar
PATROCINADO


Episode 25: Workers, Labor and Cars in the Soviet Union with Lewis Siegelbaum
Manage episode 358664547 series 2930374
For decades, historian Lewis Siegelbaum has taught and written on the Soviet Union. While many historians of labor and the working class in the USSR narrowly focused on moments of resistance, Siegelbaum investigated other aspects of working class existence such as the meaning of Soviet working class identity, the labor process, factory life and consumption practices. Siegelbaum spent years studying and writing on Donbas miners both during the late Soviet period and through the collapse of the USSR. His most well known work, Cars for Comrades was a study of the Soviet automobile. The automobile functioned as a useful prism through which to understand many complexities of late Soviet socialism. Cars were in high demand and their use was encouraged by the Soviet state. Their production and ever expanding ownership represented an achievement of Soviet industrialization and the economy at large.
On this episode, we sit down with Lewis Siegelbaum and discuss labor and workers in the USSR, Soviet miners, the automobile, as well as what it was like teaching Soviet history during the height of the Cold War and what lessons Soviet history holds for the Left today, thirty years after its collapse.
50 episodios
Manage episode 358664547 series 2930374
For decades, historian Lewis Siegelbaum has taught and written on the Soviet Union. While many historians of labor and the working class in the USSR narrowly focused on moments of resistance, Siegelbaum investigated other aspects of working class existence such as the meaning of Soviet working class identity, the labor process, factory life and consumption practices. Siegelbaum spent years studying and writing on Donbas miners both during the late Soviet period and through the collapse of the USSR. His most well known work, Cars for Comrades was a study of the Soviet automobile. The automobile functioned as a useful prism through which to understand many complexities of late Soviet socialism. Cars were in high demand and their use was encouraged by the Soviet state. Their production and ever expanding ownership represented an achievement of Soviet industrialization and the economy at large.
On this episode, we sit down with Lewis Siegelbaum and discuss labor and workers in the USSR, Soviet miners, the automobile, as well as what it was like teaching Soviet history during the height of the Cold War and what lessons Soviet history holds for the Left today, thirty years after its collapse.
50 episodios
Todos los episodios
×
1 Episode 48: Marxism and Academia in Soviet Georgia with Bakar Berekashvili 1:24:37

1 Episode 47: EU Referendum and Elections in Moldova with Vitalie Sprînceană 1:12:23

1 Episode 46: Anti-Soviet Memory Politics in Georgia with Beka Natsvlishvili 1:25:41

1 Episode 45: Georgia's Neoliberal Lock-in with Tato Khundadze 1:17:23

1 Episode 44: War, Class and Economy in Ukraine with Peter Korotaev 1:32:22

1 Episode 43: Life on the Left with Helena Sheehan 1:12:57

1 Episode 42: Soviet Anti-Colonialism & the East with Masha Kirasirova 1:25:17

1 Episode 41: Europe, Memory and the Resurgent Right with David Broder 2:22:49

1 Episode 40: Baku Oil, Bolsheviks and Sovietization in the South Caucasus with Sara Brinegar 1:12:20

1 Episode 39: Georgia's Chronic Crisis with Anatol Lieven and Almut Rochowanski 1:12:42

1 Episode 38: Post-Socialist Mortality Crisis with Gabor Scheiring 1:27:30

1 Episode 37: Georgian Film, Emigration and Post Soviet Life with Levan Koguashvili 1:09:08

1 Episode 36: Tea Production in Soviet Georgia with Camille Neufville 1:02:56

1 Episode 35: Dollarization in Georgia with Ia Eradze 1:14:41

1 Episode 34: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution with Vincent Bevins 1:56:23
Bienvenido a Player FM!
Player FM está escaneando la web en busca de podcasts de alta calidad para que los disfrutes en este momento. Es la mejor aplicación de podcast y funciona en Android, iPhone y la web. Regístrate para sincronizar suscripciones a través de dispositivos.