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Sheila Fitzpatrick

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Professor in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University

Biography

Sheila Fitzpatrick is a historian of modern Russia and immigration. She is a Professor at the Australian Catholic University, Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney and Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the University of Chicago. Her recent books include On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (2015), Mischka’s War (2017) and White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia (2021). Her next book, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union, will be published early in 2022. She is currently writing about Soviet and Baltic ‘displaced persons’ after the Second World War.

Features

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Sheila Fitzpatrick writes about being monolingual in suburban Australia.

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Features

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Sheila Fitzpatrick writes about being monolingual in suburban Australia.

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