Sheila Fitzpatrick

Sheila Fitzpatrick
Born	(1941-06-04) 4 June 1941 (age 83) Melbourne, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Citizenship	Australian, American
Alma mater	University of Melbourne St Antony's College, Oxford London School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Occupation(s)	Historian, academic
Known for	Works on the history of modern Russia, the history of Soviet Union, and the Stalinist period
Writing career
Genre	History
Subject	Soviet Union
Literary movement	People's history
Notable works	Beyond Totalitarianism Everyday Stalinism Stalin's Peasants
Notable awards	Mellon Foundation Award
Relatives	Brian Fitzpatrick
Website
sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/sheila.fitzpatrick.php

Sheila Mary Fitzpatrick (born June 4, 1941) 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.

Fitzpatrick is professor at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne), honorary professor at the University of Sydney, and Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. Prior to this, she taught Soviet history at the University of Texas at Austin and was the Bernadotte Everly Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. She is considered a founder of the field of Soviet social history.