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Bachelors History University of Melbourne
Masters History University of Melbourne
PhD History University of Melbourne

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According to Wikipedia, Sheila Mary Fitzpatrick is an Australian historian, whose main subjects are history of the Soviet Union and history of modern Russia, especially the Stalin era and the Great Purges, of which she proposes a "history from below", and is part of the "revisionist school" of Communist historiography. She has also critically reviewed the concept of totalitarianism and highlighted the differences between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in debates about comparison of Nazism and Stalinism.

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Everyday Stalinism. Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (2001) (347)
Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization (1994) (271)
The cultural front (1992) (234)
The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia. (1992) (203)
Education and social mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921-1934 (1981) (176)
Ascribing Class: The Construction of Social Identity in Soviet Russia (1993) (152)
Tear Off the Masks!: Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia (2005) (110)
Supplicants and Citizens: Public Letter-Writing in Soviet Russia in the 1930s (1996) (105)
The Russian Revolution (1982) (100)
Stalin and the Making of a New Elite, 1928-1939 (1979) (99)
The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky (1971) (93)
Signals from Below: Soviet Letters of Denunciation of the 1930s (1996) (82)
Introduction to the Practices of Denunciation in Modern European History (1996) (79)
Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared (2008) (76)
Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931 (1978) (61)
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times; Soviet Russia in the 1930s (2000) (61)
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times (2008) (60)
Accusatory practices : denunciation in modern European history, 1789-1989 (1997) (48)
Cultural Revolution in Russia 1928-32 (1974) (40)
Ordzhonikidze's takeover of Vesenkha: A case study in soviet bureaucratic politics (1985) (39)
The Russian Revolution : 1917-1932 (1984) (36)
Social parasites. How tramps, idle youth, and busy entrepreneurs impeded the soviet march to communism (2006) (36)
REVISIONISM IN SOVIET HISTORY (2007) (35)
Russia in the era of NEP : explorations in Soviet society and culture (1993) (31)
In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War (2000) (29)
Culture and Politics Under Stalin: A Reappraisal (1976) (26)
Tear off the masks (2005) (26)
On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (2015) (23)
How the Mice Buried the Cat: Scenes from the Great Purges of 1937 in the Russian Provinces (1993) (23)
Happiness and Toska: An Essay in the History of Emotions in Pre‐war Soviet Russia (2004) (22)
The Bolsheviks’ Dilemma: Class, Culture, and Politics in the Early Soviet Years (1988) (22)
Revisionism in Retrospect: A Personal View (2008) (22)
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 (2016) (20)
The “Soft” Line on Culture and Its Enemies: Soviet Cultural Policy, 1922-1927 (1974) (18)
Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture. (1993) (17)
Politics as Practice: Thoughts on a New Soviet Political History (2004) (17)
New perspectives on Stalinism? (1986) (16)
Sex and Revolution: An Examination of Literary and Statistical Data on the Mores of Soviet Students in the 1920s (1978) (15)
Sedition: Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev (2011) (15)
Celebrating (or Not) The Russian Revolution (2017) (15)
The World of Ostap Bender: Soviet Confidence Men in the Stalin Period (2002) (14)
Cultural Revolution Revisited (1999) (13)
Making a Self for the Times: Impersonation and Imposture in 20th-Century Russia (2008) (12)
A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia (2013) (11)
War and Society in Soviet Context: Soviet Labor before, during, and after World War II (1989) (10)
The Soviet Union in the twenty-first century (2007) (9)
Impact of the Opening of Soviet Archives on Western Scholarship on Soviet Social History (2015) (9)
A Researcher's Guide to Sources on Soviet Social History in the 1930s (1990) (8)
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes (2016) (7)
Editor's Introduction: Petitions and Denunciations in Russian and Soviet History1 (1997) (6)
Introduction: Shelter From The Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union (2017) (6)
Afterword: Revisionism Revisited (1986) (6)
The emergence of Glaviskusstvo. Class war on the cultural front, Moscow, 1928–29 (1971) (6)
A Closed City and Its Secret Archives: Notes on a Journey to the Urals (1990) (5)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: Acknowledgements (1979) (5)
What's left? (2017) (5)
Vengeance and Ressentiment in the Russian Revolution (2001) (5)
After Nep: the Fate of Nep Entrepreneurs, Small Traders, and Artisans in the "Socialist Russia" of the 1930S (1986) (5)
Intelligentsia and Power: Client-Patron Relations in Stalin's Russia1 (1998) (4)
Foreigners observed: Moscow visitors in the 1930s under the Gaze of their soviet guides (2008) (4)
The Motherland Calls: “Soft” Repatriation of Soviet Citizens from Europe, 1945–1953* (2018) (4)
Lives and Times (2000) (4)
A. V. Lunacharsky: Recent soviet interpretations and republications (1967) (3)
Stalinist Terror: The Impact of the Great Purges on Soviet Elites: A Case Study from Moscow and Leningrad Telephone Directories of the 1930s (1993) (3)
A Response to Michael Ellman (2002) (3)
My Father's Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood (2010) (3)
Readers' Letters To Krest'Ianskaia Gazeta, 19381 (1997) (3)
The Commissariat of Education under Lunacharsky (1917-1921) (1969) (2)
Displaced Persons from the Soviet Union to Australia in the Wake of the Second World War (2015) (2)
Writing History/Writing about Yourself: What’s the Difference? (2017) (2)
5. Origins of Stalinism : How Important Was the Civil War? (1984) (2)
THE PRACTICE OF DENUNCIATION IN STALINIST RUSSIA (2002) (2)
The Question of Social Support for Collectivization (2010) (2)
Soviet Repatriation Efforts among “Displaced Persons” Resettled in Australia, 1950–53 (2017) (2)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: Professors and Soviet power (1979) (1)
The Letter as a Work of Art: a Housing Claim in the Style of an Anketa (1997) (1)
The Women's Side of the Story: Soviet “Displaced Persons” and Postwar Repatriation (2022) (1)
Patronage and the Intelligentsia in Stalin’s Russia (2002) (1)
Kul'turnaia zhizn' Leningrada 20-kh--nachala 30-kh godov (1978) (1)
Popular Opinion Under Communist Regimes (2014) (1)
CHAPTER NINE. Supplicants and Citizens (2005) (1)
Stories of the Soviet Experience. Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams (2011) (1)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934 (1980) (1)
Beyond Totalitarianism: Energizing the Everyday (2008) (1)
Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian History and Politics (2007) (1)
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine (2017) (1)
‘Determined to get on’: Some Displaced Persons on the Way to a Future (2015) (1)
Reviews (2006) (1)
T. H. Rigby Remembered (2013) (1)
My Father's Daughter (2010) (1)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The World of Ostap Bender (2005) (1)
A World War II Odyssey: Michael Danos, En Route from Riga to New York (2010) (1)
Introduction: Soviet Union in Retrospect – Ten Years After 1991 (2004) (1)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: The making of a proletarian intelligentsia (1979) (1)
Part II PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PRACTICES (2002) (0)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: Education and Soviet society (1979) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. Class and Soslovie (2005) (0)
Migration of Jewish “Displaced Persons” from Europe to Australia after the Second World War: Revisiting the Question of Discrimination and Numbers 1 (2021) (0)
Brian Fitzpatrick and the World Outside Australia (2007) (0)
SLR volume 35 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1976) (0)
Perestroika, History, and Historians (1990) (0)
TWO. THE GREAT BREAK (2015) (0)
Part III CONSUMPTION AND CIVILIZATION (2002) (0)
THREE. IN POWER (2015) (0)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: The ‘great turning-point’ of 1928–1929 (1979) (0)
New Brunswick. (1945) (0)
The Boss and His Team: Stalin and the Inner Circle, 1925–33 (2010) (0)
What Made Stalinism Work (2016) (0)
Book Review:Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution Diane Koenker (1984) (0)
Books received and recent publications (2017) (0)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Becoming Post-Soviet (2005) (0)
Suggested Further Reading (2005) (0)
Late Soviet Politics as Patron–Client Relations (2013) (0)
Landscapes of Communism by Owen Hatherley (2015) (0)
CHAPTER TEN. Patrons and Clients (2005) (0)
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928-41 by Stephen Kotkin (2018) (0)
ONE. THE TEAM EMERGES (2015) (0)
Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets by Wendy Lesser; Shostakovhich in Dialogue: Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7 by Judith Kuhn (2011) (0)
The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia (1995) (0)
TEN. END OF THE ROAD (2015) (0)
6464 French Historical Studies 24:4 (2001) (0)
NINE. WITHOUT STALIN (2015) (0)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Con Man as Jew (2005) (0)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: Bibliography (1979) (0)
Part IV VARIETIES OF TERROR (2002) (0)
James Heinzen. The Art of the Bribe: Corruption under Stalin, 1943–1953. (2017) (0)
The Russian Revolution and Social Mobility: A Re-examination of the Question of Social Support for the Soviet Regime in the 1920s and 1930s (1984) (0)
Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution. By Katerina Clark. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995, xii, 377 pp. Notes. Index. $39.95, hard bound. (1996) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. The Bolshevik Invention Of (2005) (0)
Book Review:Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of Aleksandra Kollontai Barbara Evans Clements (1981) (0)
MATING DISRUPTION: WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT WORK? (2000) (0)
FOUR. THE TEAM ON VIEW (2015) (0)
Resettle, Repatriate or Remain: Soviet ‘Displaced Persons’ in Germany and Their Options in the Early Cold War (2022) (0)
Beyond Totalitarianism: Beyond Totalitarianism (2008) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. Lives under Fire (2005) (0)
SEVEN. POSTWAR HOPES (2015) (0)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: The ‘New Class’: social mobility and education under Stalin (1979) (0)
Mischka's War: A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York (2017) (0)
Provincial Stalinism: scenes from the Great Purge 1937 (1988) (0)
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 (2015) (0)
THE STANDARD OF LIVING IN THE SOVIET (1997) (0)
The ABC of communism revisited (2018) (0)
Bolshevik Surveillance in Historiography by Katerina Kvapilova (2017) (0)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: The education system: problems of mobility and specialization (1979) (0)
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture by Eleonory Gilburd (2019) (0)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: Recruitment to higher education (1979) (0)
Book Reviews (2011) (0)
"The Russian Revolution", S. Fitzpatrick, Oxford-New York 1982 : [recenzja] / Aleksander Achmatowicz. (1985) (0)
Book Review:Women's Work in Soviet Russia: Continuity in the Midst of Change Michael Paul Sacks (1979) (0)
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE PEOPLE (2020) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. Story of a Peasant Striver (2005) (0)
The transnational world of the Cominternians [Book Review] (2015) (0)
From the Editors: An Interview with Sheila Fitzpatrick (2007) (0)
FIVE. THE GREAT PURGES (2015) (0)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: Cultural Revolution and the schools (1979) (0)
Russians in the jungle: Tubabao as a way station for refugees from China to Australia, 1949 (2019) (0)
How Russia changed my life (2010) (0)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: Notes (1979) (0)
Practising Stalinism b J. Arch Getty (2014) (0)
CHAPTER EIGHT. Women’s Lives (2005) (0)
12 Afterword: The Thaw in Retrospect (2012) (0)
6464 French Historical Studies 24:4 (2001) (0)
SIX. INTO WAR (2015) (0)
Fascism, Totalitarianism, and Beyond: Recent Perspectives on the Twentieth-Century Dictatorships (1969) (0)
11. Workers against Bosses: The Impact of the Great Purges on Labor-Management Relations (2019) (0)
Russia's Twentieth Century in History and Historiography (2000) (0)
Hough and History (2021) (0)
Sources of Change in Soviet History: State, Society, and the Entrepreneurial Tradition (2019) (0)
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 11, 4 (Fall 2010): 807–17. Review Forum: Totalitarianism—The Comparative Dimension Nazis and Stalinists (2010) (0)
My Father's Daughter: A Memoir (2007) (0)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: Mass education and mobility in the countryside (1979) (0)
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Signals from Below (2005) (0)
2. The two faces of Anastasia: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of Identity in Stalinist Everyday Life (2002) (0)
Beyond Totalitarianism: GOVERNANCE (2008) (0)
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934: The new Soviet school (1979) (0)
The ABC of communism revisited (2018) (0)
All that glitters: A new capital rises from the steppe (2013) (0)
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The prodigals’ return: Voluntary repatriation from displaced persons’ camps in Europe to the Soviet Union, 1949-1950 (2021) (0)
“Middle-class Values” and Soviet Life in the 1930s (2019) (0)
EIGHT. AGING LEADER (2015) (0)
Robert W. Thurston. Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia 1934–1941. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1996. Pp. xxi, 296. $30.00 (1997) (0)
The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu; Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine by Antonio García Martínez; Move Fast and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin (2017) (0)
Beyond Totalitarianism: List of Contributors (2008) (0)
Anti-Communism in Australian Immigration Policies 1947–54: The Case of Russian/Soviet Displaced Persons from Europe and White Russians from China (2019) (0)
David Rousset. A Critical History of the USSR. Volume 1, The Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution. Translated by Alan Freeman. New York: St. Martin's. 1982. Pp. 333. $27.50 (1984) (0)
CHAPTER TWELVE. Wives’ Tales (2005) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. Class Identities In NEP Society (2005) (0)
The Liberation Movement in Russia, 1900–1905. By Galai Shmuel. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Soviet and East Euro-pean Series. Pp. 325. $22.50.) (1975) (0)
A Critical History of the USSR. Volume 1, The Legacy of the Bolshevik Revolution (1984) (0)
The devil's instrument [Book Review] (2013) (0)
Lost to the Collective:: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-29 by Kenneth Pinnow (2011) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. Becoming Soviet (2005) (0)
Beyond Totalitarianism: Introduction (2008) (0)
Stalin. In the Hall. With the Revolver (1999) (0)
Things Under Socialism: The Soviet Experience (2012) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. The Two Faces of Anastasia (2005) (0)
Peasant Rebels under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. By Lynne Viola (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii plus 312pp. $49.95) (1998) (0)
Beyond Totalitarianism: Works Cited (2008) (0)
Popular Perceptions of Soviet Politics in the 1920s: Disenchantment of the Dreamers. By Olga Velikanova. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xvi, 252 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Photographs. Figures. Tables. $100.00, hard bound. (2015) (0)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED (2015) (0)
Ending the Russian Revolution: Reflections on Soviet History and its Interpreters (2009) (0)
Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts (2013) (0)
The Tramp’s Tale: Travels Within the Soviet Union and Across its Borders, 1925–1950 (2018) (0)
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 (2019) (0)
In War's Wake: Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order by Gerard Daniel Cohen (2013) (0)
Reply to Suny and Orlovsky (1988) (0)
The restoration of order: new policies in education, 1931–1934 (1979) (0)

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