Sheila Fitzpatrick is Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago, and Professor of History at the University of Sydney. As a historian of twentieth-century Russia, her earlier work focused mainly on Soviet social and cultural history in the Stalin period, particularly social mobility, social identity and everyday practice. Her first major study in political history: On Stalin’s Team: the Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics, which uses some of the techniques of her “everyday” work, was co-published by Princeton University Press and Melbourne University Press in 2015. My Father’s Daughter, her memoir of her father, the radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick, and her childhood in Melbourne came out in 2010, and she published a memoir of life as a student in Cold War Moscow in the 1960s, A Spy in the Archives in 2012.2017 saw the appearance of her memoir-history of wartime displacement, Mischka’s War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s, and a volume co-edited with Mark Edele and Atina Grossman,Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union, as well as the 4th (Centenary) edition of The Russian Revolution.
Sheila Fitzpatrick
