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Sheila Fitzpatrick

シーラ・フィッツパトリック

Shīra Fittsupatorikku

Aliases: Sheila Mary Fitzpatrick

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1941-06-04 （Melbourne）
Died
N/A （N/A）
Nationality
Australian, American
Languages
English, Russian
Residence History
Melbourne, Australia → Oxford and London, Britain → Soviet Union → United States (Austin, Chicago) → Sydney and Melbourne, Australia

Career

Occupations
Historian, Professor
Active Years
1969-2024
Affiliations
Australian Catholic University, University of Sydney (Honorary Professor), University of Chicago (Distinguished Service Professor Emerita), University of Texas at Austin (former)
Memberships
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Influenced By
Brian Fitzpatrick
Influenced
Arch Getty, Lynne Viola
Nominations
Prime Minister's Award for non-fiction 2018 shortlist: Mischka's War

Education

University of Melbourne
Degree: BA
Year of Graduation: 1961
Country: Australia
St Antony's College, Oxford
Russian and East European Studies
Degree: DPhil
Year of Graduation: 1969
Country: United Kingdom
Thesis: The Commissariat of Education under Lunacharsky (1917–1921)
London School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Period: 1969-1972
Country: United Kingdom
Research Fellow

Awards

Mellon Foundation Award
2002
Organization: Mellon Foundation
Result: 受賞
Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
2012
Organization: Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Result: 受賞
Award for Scholarly Distinction
2012
Organization: American Historical Association
Result: 受賞
Magarey Medal for biography
2012
Work: My Father's Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood
Category: 伝記
Organization: Australian Historical Association
Result: 受賞
Prime Minister's Award for non-fiction
2016
Work: On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
Category: ノンフィクション
Organization: Australian Government
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

1999 History

Depicts the everyday life of ordinary Soviet citizens during the 1930s Stalin era from a social history perspective, critically examining totalitarianism.

Stalin eraEveryday lifeSocial history
Translations
  • Czech, French, Polish, Russian, Spanish

Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization

1994 History

Examines resistance and survival of Russian peasants in villages after collectivization.

CollectivizationPeasant resistanceStalinism
Translations
  • Russian

The Russian Revolution

1982 History

Overview of the social aspects of the Russian Revolution.

Russian RevolutionSocial change
Translations
  • Czech, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics

2015 History

Reveals the inner workings of Soviet political elites under Stalin.

Stalin politicsElitesHigh-stakes politics
Translations
  • Czech, French, German, Greek, Polish, Russian, Spanish

My Father's Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood

2010 Memoir

Memoir of childhood memories with father Brian Fitzpatrick.

FamilyAustralian history

Bibliography

  • The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts Under Lunacharsky, 1917–1921
  • Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921–1932
  • The Russian Revolution
  • The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia
  • Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization
  • Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
  • Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia
  • My Father's Daughter
  • A Spy in the Archives
  • On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
  • Mischka's War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s
  • White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia
  • The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
  • Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War
  • The Death of Stalin

Style & Themes

Literary Style
History from belowRevisionist schoolSocial historyEveryday history
Recurring Motifs
Social mobilityEveryday life in Stalin eraClass struggleCritique of totalitarianism

Legacy

Pioneer of Soviet social history, particularly the Stalin era. Leader of the revisionist school, reinterpreting history from below and critiquing the totalitarian model. Founder of the field of Soviet social history.

Academic Societies

  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Australian Academy of the Humanities
  • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Trivia

  • Daughter of Australian author Brian Fitzpatrick.
  • Younger brother is historian David P. B. Fitzpatrick.
  • Plays violin in orchestras and chamber groups.
  • Lived outside Australia for fifty years before returning in 2012.