I sailed away with a mighty push, never to return 
Sheila Fitzpatrick
- The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine
This book changed my sense of the big story of Soviet history as well as the big story of the Jews in the modern world.[*] Chapter 4, in particular, the interpretative history of Jews in the Soviet Union (and the United States and Israel), which takes up almost half the book, should be compulsory reading for everyone who has ever expressed an opinion on the subject.
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From the LRB letters page: [ 31 March 2005 ] Clive James.
Sheila Fitzpatrick’s latest book (edited with Carolyn Rasmussen) is Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-40s.
Other articles by this contributor:
Like a Thunderbolt · Solzhenitsyn’s Mission
A Little Swine · Snitching
Pessimism and Boys · Sheila Fitzpatrick reads the diary of a Soviet schoolgirl
The Good Old Days · The Dacha-Owning Classes
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