Sheila Fitzpatrick
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Sheila Mary Fitzpatrick (born June 4, 1941) is an Australian
Fitzpatrick is
Family
Sheila Fitzpatrick was born in
Fitzpatrick's first marriage to Alex Bruce, a fellow University of Melbourne student, soon ended. Her second marriage to the political scientist Jerry F. Hough, from 1975 to 1983, ended in divorce. While living in the United States, Fitzpatrick married the theoretical physicist Michael Danos (1922-1999).[2]
Biography
Fitzpatrick attended the
Fitzpatrick is a member of the
She spent fifty years living outside Australia. This included periods in Britain, the Soviet Union,
Fitzpatrick has been awarded Discovery Grants by the
Research
Writing in The American Historical Review, Roberta T. Manning reviewed Fitzpatrick's work, stating: "In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Sheila Fitzpatrick almost singlehandedly created the field of Soviet social history with an impressive series of pioneering, now classic studies: The Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931 (1978), Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921–1934 (1979), and The Russian Revolution (1982). Book after book opened entirely new areas of research, explored old subjects from new perspectives, and forever altered the way experts perceived the USSR between 1917 and the outbreak of World War II."[15]
Her research focuses on the social and
In Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared, Fitzpatrick and
Historiographical debates
Academic
As the leader of the second generation of the "revisionist school", or "revisionist historians", Fitzpatrick was the first to call the group of historians working on Soviet history in the 1980s "a new cohort of [revisionist school] historians." Fitzpatrick called for a social history that did not address political issues and adhered strictly to a "from below" viewpoint. This was justified by the idea that the university had been strongly conditioned to see everything through the prism of the state, hence "the social processes unrelated to the intervention of the state is virtually absent from the literature."[28] Fitzpatrick did not deny that the state's role in social change of the 1930s was huge and defended the practice of social history "without politics", as most young "revisionist school" historians did not want to separate the social history of the Soviet Union from the evolution of the political system.[19] Fitzpatrick explained that in the 1980s, when the "totalitarian model" was still widely used, "it was very useful to show that the model had an inherent bias and it did not explain everything about Soviet society. Now, whereas a new generation of academics considers sometimes as self evident that the totalitarian model was completely erroneous and harmful, it is perhaps more useful to show than there were certain things about the Soviet company that it explained very well."[29]
Bibliography
Books
- The Commissariat of Enlightenment : Soviet organization of education and the arts under Lunacharsky, 1917–1921. Cambridge University Press. 1970.[30]
- 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. ISBN 978-0-19-923767-8. Translated into Braille, Czech, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
- 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. Translated into Russian.
- ISBN 0-19-505001-0Translated into Czech, French, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
- Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia. Princeton University Press. 2005. Translated into Chinese and Russian.
- OCLC 506020660.
- A Spy in the Archives. Melbourne University Press. 2013. Translated into Turkish.
- On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics. Princeton University Press. 1st ed. 2015; paperback ed. 2017. Translated into Czech, French, German, Greek, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
- 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[31]
Articles
- "Ascribing Class: The Construction of Social Identity in Soviet Russia" (1993). The Journal of Modern History. 65: (4). JSTOR 2124540.
- "Vengeance and Ressentiment in the Russian Revolution" (2001). French Historical Studies. 24: (4). .
- "Politics as Practice: Thoughts on a New Soviet Political History" (2004). Kritika. 5: (1). .
- "Happiness and Toska: A Study of Emotions in 1930s Russia" (2004). Australian Journal of Politics and History. 50: (3). .
- "Social Parasites: How Tramps, Idle Youth, and Busy Entrepreneurs Impeded the Soviet March to Communism" (2006). Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique. 47: 1–2. JSTOR 20175002.
- "The Soviet Union in the Twenty-First Century" (2007). Journal of European Studies. 37: (1). .
- "A Spy in the Archives" (2010). London Review of Books. 32 (23): 3–8.
Book reviews
Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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2014 | Fitzpatrick, Sheila (September 2014). "'One of Us': The Spy Who Relished Deception". Australian Book Review. 364: 27–28. | ISBN 9781408851739 .
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2020 | Fitzpatrick, Sheila (6 February 2020). "Which Face? Emigrés on the Make". London Review of Books. 42 (3): 7–9. | Tromly, Benjamin (2019). Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780815737735 .
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2020 | Fitzpatrick, Sheila (10 September 2020). "Whatever Made Him". London Review of Books. 42 (17): 9–11. | ISBN 9781509526864 .
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2021 | Fitzpatrick, Sheila (January–February 2021). "Knotty problems : an examination of Europe's displaced persons". Australian Book Review. 428: 12, 14. | Nasaw, David (2020). The last million : Europe's displaced persons from World War to Cold War. Allen Lane. |
References
- ^ "Fitzpatrick, Brian Charles (1905–1965)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- ^ "Fitzpatrick, Sheila Mary - Woman - the Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia".
- ^ Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1987. p. 34.
- ^ "Award for Scholarly Distinction Recipients". Historians.org. American Historical Association. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Fitzpatrick, Sheila Mary (1941 – )". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. University of Melbourne (The Australian Women's Register). Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "On Stalin's Team: the Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics". Office for the Arts, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications. 7 November 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick". University of Sydney. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Magarey Medal – Previous Winners". The Australian Historical Association. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^ "2018 shortlists announced!". Office for the Arts, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
- ^ Legvold, Robert (May–June 2016). "On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Whitewood, Peter (4 March 2017). "On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics, written by Sheila Fitzpatrick". Brill. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "White Russians, Red Peril". Australian Catholic University. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
Making use of newly discovered Russian-language archives and drawing on a lifetime's study of Soviet history and politics, Professor Fitzpatrick examines the early years of a diverse Russian-Australian community and how Australian and Soviet intelligence agencies attempted to track and influence them. While anti-communist 'White' Russians dreamed a war of liberation would overthrow the Soviet regime, a dissident minority admired its achievements and thought of returning home.
- ^ Macintyre, Stuart (May 2021). "A complex mosaic: The early years of a diverse Russian-Australian community". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Beddie, Francesca (1 June 2021). "White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick". Historians.org. American Historical Association. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- JSTOR 2652201.
- ISBN 9780511523595.
- doi:10.2307/2496711. At p. 38.
- . At p. 13.
- ^ ISBN 9789197748728.
- ISBN 978-0253203373.
- ISBN 978-0-521-72397-8.
- ISBN 978-1-139-44663-1.
Academic Sovietology, a child of the early Cold War, was dominated by the 'totalitarian model' of Soviet politics. Until the 1960s it was almost impossible to advance any other interpretation, in the USA at least.
- ISBN 978-1-139-44663-1.
In 1953, Carl Friedrich characterised totalitarian systems in terms of five points: an official ideology, control of weapons and of media, use of terror, and a single mass party, 'usually under a single leader'. There was of course an assumption that the leader was critical to the workings of totalitarianism: at the apex of a monolithic, centralised, and hierarchical system, it was he who issued the orders which were fulfilled unquestioningly by his subordinates.
- ISBN 978-1-139-44663-1.
Tucker's work stressed the absolute nature of Stalin's power, an assumption which was increasingly challenged by later revisionist historians. In his Origins of the Great Purges, Arch Getty argued that the Soviet political system was chaotic, that institutions often escaped the control of the centre, and that Stalin's leadership consisted to a considerable extent in responding, on an ad hoc basis, to political crises as they arose. Getty's work was influenced by political science of the 1960s onwards, which, in a critique of the totalitarian model, began to consider the possibility that relatively autonomous bureaucratic institutions might have had some influence on policy-making at the highest level.
- S2CID 142829949.
- ISBN 978-1-139-44663-1.
- ISSN 1468-2303.
... the Western scholars who in the 1990s and 2000s were most active in scouring the new archives for data on Soviet repression were revisionists (always 'archive rats') such as Arch Getty and Lynne Viola.
- JSTOR 130466. Quotes at pp. 358–359.
- JSTOR 130471. Quotes at pp. 409–410.
- ^ Translated into Italian and Spanish.
- ^ "Sheila Fitzpatrick The Shortest History of the Soviet Union". YouTube. Trinity College, Cambridge. 23 November 2022.
Further reading
- Hessler, Julie. "Sheila Fitzpatrick: An Interpretive Essay". Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatric and Soviet Historiography. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 21–36.
- Suny, Ronald Grigor (2011). "Writing Russia: The Work of Sheila Fitzpatrick". In Alexopoulos, Golfo; Hessler, Julie; Tomoff, Kiril (eds.). Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatric and Soviet Historiography. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1–20.
External links
- Carnig, Jennifer; Harmes, William; Koppes, Steve. "Five faculty members elected as fellows of American academy". The University of Chicago Chronicle. 24 (17).
- David-Fox, Michael; et al. (2007). "An Interview with Sheila Fitzpatrick". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 8(3): 479–486. .
- Harms, William (8 June 1995). "Graduate Teaching Award".
- Harms, William (5 December 2002). "Fitzpatrick one of five distinguished scholars to receive Mellon grant".
- University of Chicago. The University of Chicago Chronicle. 14 (19).
- University of Sydney. The University of Chicago Chronicle. 22 (5).
- ABC Conversations – Sheila Fitzpatrick on working inside a secret Soviet 60s society.