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Jan 10, 2025 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Sheila Fitzpatrick
In Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War, Sheila Fitzpatrick, a professor of history at Australian Catholic University and Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago, offers a monumental history of a not-often-discussed chapter from World War II.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Benjamin Nathans |Sheila Fitzpatrick
Soviet dissidents saw things differently from those around them and asserted their right to do so. This was a phenomenon of the post-Stalin period, and specifically of the second half of the 1960s and the 1970s: the aftermath of Khrushchev’s Thaw, which happens to be the period in which I first encountered the Soviet Union as a British exchange student in Moscow. Naturally their dissenting opinions tended to be unpopular with their fellow citizens.
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May 17, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills |Sheila Fitzpatrick
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Through the long years of Stalinism, Anastasia Emelianovna Egorova tramped across the Soviet Union on one leg.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Sheila Fitzpatrick |Arts Highlights
Back in the 1970s, when I went up to Katerina Clark’s place in Connecticut for the weekend, I was always a bit on my guard. Katerina was a wonderful and generous friend, but inquisitive. Being young, I had things in my personal life I wanted to hide. A silent tussle went on between us as she did her best to ferret them out (probably knowing from her other sources more or less what they were) and I stone-walled.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
portside.org | Sheila Fitzpatrick
Did Stalin Deliberately Let Ukraine Starve? Published March 20, 2024 Red FamineStalin's War on UkraineAnne ApplebaumAnchorISBN: 9780804170888The terrible famine of 1932-3 hit all the major Soviet grain-growing regions, but Ukraine worst of all. It was not the result of adverse climatic conditions but a product of government policies.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
openforum.com.au | Sheila Fitzpatrick
This year is the centenary of Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We – a major influence on George Orwell’s dystopia 1984, as well as an important early contribution to the burgeoning genre of science fiction. We and 1984 (published in 1949) were crucial influences on Cold War western imagination of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian state.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
dhakatribune.com | Sheila Fitzpatrick
This year is the centenary of Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We -- a major influence on George Orwell’s dystopia 1984, as well as an important early contribution to the burgeoning genre of science fiction. We and 1984 (published in 1949) were crucial influences on Cold War western imagination of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian state.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Sheila Fitzpatrick
This year is the centenary of Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We – a major influence on George Orwell’s dystopia 1984, as well as an important early contribution to the burgeoning genre of science fiction. We and 1984 (published in 1949) were crucial influences on Cold War western imagination of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian state.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
lrb.co.uk | Anna Reid |Sheila Fitzpatrick
‘Areally nasty, dirty little war … Waste of time, money and everything else’ was the way Christopher Bilney, who served as a seaplane pilot in the Caucasus in 1919, remembered it in old age. He was one of many British veterans whose memories of Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War of 1918-20 were ‘uneasy, with guilt and a sense of failure lurking beneath surface jollity’.
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Sep 24, 2023 | 
australianbookreview.com.au | Sheila Fitzpatrick
Stalin really knew how to lock a country down. Western intelligence services had virtually no secret information sources in the Soviet Union in the 1940s, in contrast to the Soviets’ striking success with Kim Philby, the mole who held a senior position in British intelligence. Western diplomats in Moscow had no direct contacts with members of the Russian population, other than the various watchful helpers supplied by the state.
