Sheila Fitzpatrick, leading historian of the Country Email List USSR, discusses her work, her intellectual career, and her life in the archives, from where she began a prolific and original work on Soviet social history. A life among the Soviet archives Interview Country Email List with Sheila Fitzpatrick Sheila Fitzpatrick (Melbourne, 1941) is one of today's most important and influential historians. Dedicated to the study of the history of Soviet Russia for more than 50 years, she has made great contributions to the understanding of the life of the peasantry Country Email List and the industrial population during Stalinism, while addressing issues associated with class and social mobility in the Soviet Union.
Professor of History at the University of Country Email List Sydney and Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago, Fitzpatrick has stood out for putting into practice a "history from below" that allows us to see decisive and particular aspects of daily life in the USSR . In contrast to the model proposed by the «school of totalitarianism» –which tended to Country Email List analyze the Soviet world «from above», considering that it was enough to know the decisions of the State, the leaders and the Party–, Fitzpatrick focused his studies on the relations of citizens and in their complex interactions with government agencies, including the gaps in which state orders were Country Email List challenged in different ways.
Internationally recognized for books Country Email List such as Lunacharski and the Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts (1917-1921)1, The Russian Revolutiontwo, Daily life during Stalinism3 and The Stalin Team4, has just published The Shortest History of the Soviet Union , which will soon be published in Spanish and Portuguese. In this Country Email List interview, Fitzpatrick reviews his work and his life among Soviet archives, comments on his influences and his ways of making history, and delves into some of the great contemporary debates that have Country Email List Vladimir's Russia as their axis.