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Better to bend the stick too far

Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • A History of 20th-Century Russia by Robert Service

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Sheila Fitzpatrick teaches at the University of Chicago. She is the editor (with Stuart Macintyre) of Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian History and Politics.

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