Sheila Fitzpatrick

Sheila Fitzpatrick has spent many decades writing about Russia and the Soviet Union.

In the LRB Archive:

• Just like that: Second-Guessing Stalin · 5 April 2018

  • Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928-41 by Stephen Kotkin

• Good Communist Homes · 27 July 2017

  • The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine

• Video: What about the revolutions? · 18 July 2017

• 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

• Diary: Andrei Platonov · 1 December 2016

• 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

• Zanchevsky, Zakrevsky or Zakovsky?: Julian Barnes · 18 February 2016

  • The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes

• 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

• Almost Lovable: What Stalin Built · 30 July 2015

  • Landscapes of Communism: A History through Buildings by Owen Hatherley

• Whose person is he?: ‘Practising Stalinism’ · 20 March 2014

  • Practising Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars and the Persistence of Tradition by J. Arch Getty

• 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

• Who gets the dacha?: Marshal Zhukov · 24 January 2013

  • Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts

• 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

• 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

• 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

• A Spy in the Archives · 2 December 2010

• 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

• Cultivating Their Dachas: ‘Zhivago’s Children’ · 10 September 2009

  • Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia by Vladislav Zubok

• Many Promises: Prokofiev in Russia · 14 May 2009

  • The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years by Simon Morrison

• Like a Thunderbolt: Solzhenitsyn’s Mission · 11 September 2008

  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Liudmila Saraskina

• Charmer: Stalin’s Origins · 1 November 2007

  • Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

• 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

• Diary: remembering my father · 8 February 2007

• Normal People: SovietSpeak · 25 May 2006

  • Everything Was For Ever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak

• A Little Swine: on Snitching · 3 November 2005

  • Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero by Catriona Kelly

• Terkinesque: A Leninist version of Soviet history · 1 September 2005

  • The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin, edited by Gregory Elliott

• I sailed away with a mighty push, never to return: Jews in the Revolution · 17 March 2005

  • The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Better to bend the stick too far: The history of Russia · 4 February 1999

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

• 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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