Lewis Siegelbaum

Lewis Siegelbaum, who teaches at Michigan State University, is the author of Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile.

Letter
I will leave it to readers of my review to determine whether the portions of the transcript of Saltykov’s interview that it cited contain evidence of hectoring. I also wrote of ‘incomprehension’ on the part of that particular interviewer, a characterisation that I would now extend to Robert Latypov and Aleksander Kalikh. Nobody could deny that Memorial has honourably represented the victims of...

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