Sheila Fitzpatrick
Sheila Fitzpatrick is currently researching the resettlement of Russians from China and from European displaced persons camps after the Second World War.
In the LRB Archive:
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People and Martians · 24 January 2019
- The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties by Robert Conquest
- The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine by Robert Conquest
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Just like that: Second-Guessing Stalin · 5 April 2018
- Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928-41 by Stephen Kotkin
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Good Communist Homes · 27 July 2017
- The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
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Video: What about the revolutions? · 18 July 2017
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What’s Left?: The Russian Revolution · 30 March 2017
- October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
- The Russian Revolution 1905-1921 by Mark D. Steinberg
- Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by S.A. Smith
- The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin
- Historically Inevitable? Turning Points of the Russian Revolution by Tony Brenton
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Diary: Andrei Platonov · 1 December 2016
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Vodka + Caesium: Nostalgia for the USSR · 20 October 2016
- Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait
- Second-Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich
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Zanchevsky, Zakrevsky or Zakovsky?: Julian Barnes · 18 February 2016
- The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
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Going Native: The Maisky Diaries · 3 December 2015
- The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-43 edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky, translated by Tatiana Sorokina and Oliver Ready
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Almost Lovable: What Stalin Built · 30 July 2015
- Landscapes of Communism: A History through Buildings by Owen Hatherley
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Whose person is he?: ‘Practising Stalinism’ · 20 March 2014
- Practising Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars and the Persistence of Tradition by J. Arch Getty
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Reasons for Not Going Back: Displaced by WWII · 11 April 2013
- In War’s Wake: Europe’s Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order by Gerard Daniel Cohen
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Who gets the dacha?: Marshal Zhukov · 24 January 2013
- Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts
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Outfox them!: Stalin v Emigrés · 8 March 2012
- Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union 1921-41 by Michael David-Fox
- Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-41 by Katerina Clark
- Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour and Everyday Life under Stalin by Timothy Johnston
- Stalin’s Last Generation: Soviet Postwar Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism by Juliane Fürst
- All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin by Anne Gorsuch
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Voldemort or Stalin?: Shostakovich · 1 December 2011
- Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets by Wendy Lesser
- Shostakovich in Dialogue: Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7 by Judith Kuhn
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Deaths at Two O’Clock: Suicide in the USSR · 17 February 2011
- Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-29 by Kenneth Pinnow
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A Spy in the Archives · 2 December 2010
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The Old Man: Trotsky · 22 April 2010
- Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
- Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky by Bertrand Patenaude
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Cultivating Their Dachas: ‘Zhivago’s Children’ · 10 September 2009
- Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia by Vladislav Zubok
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Many Promises: Prokofiev in Russia · 14 May 2009
- The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years by Simon Morrison
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Like a Thunderbolt: Solzhenitsyn’s Mission · 11 September 2008
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Liudmila Saraskina
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Charmer: Stalin’s Origins · 1 November 2007
- Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Obscene Child: Mozart · 5 July 2007
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: A Biography by Piero Melograni, translated by Lydia Cochrane
- Mozart: The First Biography by Franz Niemetschek, translated by Helen Mautner
- Mozart’s Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music by Jane Glover
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Diary: remembering my father · 8 February 2007
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Normal People: SovietSpeak · 25 May 2006
- Everything Was For Ever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak
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A Little Swine: on Snitching · 3 November 2005
- Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero by Catriona Kelly
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Terkinesque: A Leninist version of Soviet history · 1 September 2005
- The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin, edited by Gregory Elliott
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I sailed away with a mighty push, never to return: Jews in the Revolution · 17 March 2005
- The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine
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The Rise and Fall of the Baggy-Trousered Barbarians: Soviet historiography · 19 August 2004
- Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger by Richard Pipes
- Adventures in Russian Historical Research: Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present edited by Samuel Baron and Cathy Frierson
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Pessimism and Boys: the diary of a Soviet schoolgirl · 6 May 2004
- The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl 1932-37 by Nina Lugovskaya, translated by Joanne Turnbull
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The Good Old Days: The Dacha-Owning Classes · 9 October 2003
- Summerfolk 1710-2000: A History of the Dacha by Stephen Lovell
- Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc edited by David Crowley and Susan Reid
- Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin’s Russia by Jukka Gronow
- The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Everyday Economies after Socialism by Caroline Humphrey
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Better to bend the stick too far: The history of Russia · 4 February 1999
- A History of 20th-Century Russia by Robert Service
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On the Banks of the Tom · 10 November 1994
- Memoirs of Peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia translated and edited by William Edgerton
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