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Sheila Fitzpatrick Prof. Fitzpatrick has retired and no longer directs BA theses or accepts new graduate students at the University of Chicago. Email
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Russian History and the College

Oxford University, DPhil '69

Recent Research / Recent Publications

Publications

  • Mischka's War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s. Melbourne University Press, 2017.

  • A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia. Melbourne University Press, 2013.

  • My Father's Daughter. Melbourne University Press, 2010 (Australian Historical Association's Magarey Medal for Biography)

  • Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia. Princeton University Press, 2005.

  • (ed.). Stalinism: New Directions. New York: Routledge, 2000.

  • (ed. with Yuri Slezkine). In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

  • Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  • (ed. with Robert Gellately). Accusatory Practices: Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789–1989. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

  • Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

  • The Cultural Front. Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia. Ithaca: NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.

  • The Russian Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1st ed., 1982/3; 2nd revised ed. 1994; 3rd (revised) ed. 2007.

  • Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921–1932. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

  • (ed.). Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.

  • The Commissariat of Enlightenment. Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, 1917–1921. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.

  • "The Soviet Union in the 21st Century." Journal of European Studies 37, no. 1 (2007).

  • "Social Parasites: How Tramps, Idle Youth, and Busy Entrepreneurs Impeded the Soviet March to Communism." Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique 47, no. 1–2 (2006).

  • "Happiness and Toska: A Study of Emotions in 1930s Russia." Australian Journal of Politics and History 50, no. 3 (2004).

  • "Politics as Practice: Thoughts on a New Soviet Political History." Kritika 5, no. 1 (2004).

  • "Vengeance and Ressentiment in the Russian Revolution." French Historical Studies 24, no. 4 (2001).

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