Sheila Fitzpatrick: 9 books

Moscow in the 1960s was the other side of the Iron Curtain: mysterious, exotic, even dangerous. In 1966 the historian Sheila Fitzpatrick travelled to Moscow to research in the Soviet archives. This was the era of Brezhnev, of a possible 'thaw' in the Cold War, when the Soviets couldn't decide either...

De Russische Revolutie van 1917 heeft diepgaande gevolgen gehad voor het verloop van de twintigste eeuw. Sheila Fitzpatrick beschrijft niet alleen de politieke, economische, maatschappelijke en culturele oorzaken van de Russische Revolutie, maar ook de verschillende fasen die deze doormaakte. Duidelijk...

Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed....

Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably...

"O livro deixa de lado as doutrinações ideológicas e consegue destrinchar os acontecimentos desse evento-chave do século XX tanto para especialistas quanto para leigos." Passados cem anos, a Revolução Russa continua a ser considerada um acontecimento decisivo para compreender o século...

“Her tarihçinin yazmayı düşleyeceği bir kitap.” -Slavoj  Žižek-   1960’lar›n sonuna doğru bir doktora öğrencisi, “casus akademisi” olarak bilinen St. Antony’s’den yola çıkarak Devrim sonrasının ilk Halk Eğitim Komiseri Lunaçarski hakkında tez...

The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpatrick...

In 1943, 22-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. A few months later, escaping conscription into the Waffen-SS in Riga, Mischka entered Hitler's Reich itself on a student exchange to Germany. There, as the...

A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and “a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture” (The Russian Review). In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized...