Sheila Fitzpatrick

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Sheila Fitzpatrick (2016)

Sheila Fitzpatrick (born June 4, 1941 in Melbourne ) is an American historian of Australian descent who deals with modern Russian history and the history of the Soviet Union .

Life

Sheila Fitzpatrick received her BA from the University of Melbourne in 1961 . The Ph.D. received it from Oxford University in 1969 . Fitzpatrick then taught Soviet history at the University of Chicago . She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2002 she received the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. From September 1996 to December 2006 she was co-editor of The Journal of Modern History with Jan E. Goldstein and John W. Boyer .

Sheila Fitzpatrick is the daughter of Brian Fitzpatrick , an Australian author. She was married to the physicist Michael Danos.

Fonts

  • The Commissariat of Enlightenment. Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, 1917-1921. Oxford University Press, 1970.
  • Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921-1932. Cambridge University Press, 1979.
  • The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1982/1983.
  • The Cultural Front. Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia. Cornell University Press, 1992.
  • Stalin's Peasants. Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization. Oxford University Press, 1994.
  • Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Tear off the masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia. Princeton University Press, 2005.
  • Political Tourists: Travelers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s – 1940s . Edited with Carolyn Rasmussen. Melbourne University Press, 2008. ISBN 0-522-85530-X
  • My Father's Daughter. Melbourne University Press, 2010.
  • A Spy in the Archives. Melbourne University Press, 2013.
  • On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. Princeton University Press, 2015. German-language edition: Stalin's team. Teamwork and tyranny in the Kremlin. Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2017. ISBN 978-3-506784-32-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Harms: Fitzpatrick one of five distinguished scholars to receive Mellon grant