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Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity . Edited by Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald Grigor Suny. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. 399p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

threat of political suppression continued to inhibit thorough research at the time that the study was undertaken. Seidman notes this problem briefly in her introduction, and only occasionally does she lapse into drawing conclusions too thinly supported by data. The study demonstrates the extreme difficulty of reconstructing interpretations of events that occurred during periods of extreme repression and high politicization in both countries. Yet Seidman makes a convincing argument through explicit and careful construction of a theoretical explanation that she systematically interweaves with credible information about these cases. Stylistically, the cost of such a close hermeneutic account with fairly frequent summations is a book that becomes long and redundant at points. But the writing is clear and smooth and thus very readable. In short, Seidman displays comparative social science at its best, giving those with area specialties in Africa and Latin America (and Asia) good reason to follow her example in continuing the search for theories that travel across time and place without sacrificing depth, detail, nuance, or complexity.