Sheila Fitzpatrick

Sheila Fitzpatrick (born 4 June 1941 in Melbourne) is an American historian of Australian descent.

Life

Sheila Fitzpatrick received the BA degree in 1961 from the University of Melbourne. The Ph.D. got it in 1969 from Oxford University. Fitzpatrick then taught Soviet history at the University of Chicago. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Australian Academy of Hunmanities. In 2002 she was awarded the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award. From September 1996 to December 2006 she was co-editor of The Journal of Modern History, together with Jan E. Goldstein and John W. Boyer.

Sheila Fitzpatrick is the daughter of Brian Fitzpatrick, an Australian author. She was married to physicist Michael Danos.

Writings

• The Commissariat of Enlightenment. Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, 1917-1921. Oxford University Press, 1970.
• Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921-1932. Cambridge University Press, 1979.
• The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1982 / 1983.
• 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, 1994.
• Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth - Century Russia. Princeton University Press, 2005.