Sheila Fitzpatrick (born June 4, 1941, Melbourne) is an Australian-American historian. She teaches Soviet History at the University of Chicago.
Fitzpatrick’s research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Stalinist period, particularly on aspects of social identity and daily life. She is currently concentrating on the social and cultural changes in Soviet Russia of the 1950s and 1960s.
Books in order of publication:
The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet organization of education and the arts under Lunacharsky, 1917–1921. Cambridge University Press. 1970.
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921–1932. Cambridge University Press. 1979 1st ed.; paperback ed. 2002.
The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press. 1st ed. 1982; 2nd revised ed. 1994; 3rd revised ed. 2007.
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. 1st ed. 1994; paperback ed. 1996.
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Oxford University Press. 1st ed. 1999; paperback ed. 2000.
Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia. Princeton University Press. 2005.
My Father’s Daughter. Melbourne University Publishing. 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. 1st ed. 2015; paperback ed. 2017.
Mischka’s War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s. Melbourne University Press & I. B. Tauris. 2017.
White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia. La Trobe University Press. 2021.
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union. Old Street Publishing. 2022
Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War. Princeton University Press. 2024.
The Death of Stalin. Old Street Publishing. 2025.
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