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Writing the Stalin era : Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet historiography
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Writing the Stalin era : Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet historiography

Author: Golfo Alexopoulos; Kiril Tomoff; Julie Hessler; Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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"This book weaves together elements of biography, historiography, and historical writing to explore the writings and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick, the University of Chicago's eminent scholar of Soviet history. It begins with essays that examine Fitzpatrick's contribution to her field and concludes with reminiscences about her life and career so far written by friends, family members, colleagues, and students. The  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Biography
Named Person: Sheila Fitzpatrick; Sheila Fitzpatrick; Joseph Stalin; Sheila Fitzpatrick; Sheila Fitzpatrick
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Golfo Alexopoulos; Kiril Tomoff; Julie Hessler; Sheila Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9780230105492 0230105491 9780230109308 0230109306
OCLC Number: 503072334
Description: viii, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Sheila Fitzpatrick and the writing of history --
Writing Russia : the work of Sheila Fitzpatrick / Ronald Suny --
Sheila Fitzpatrick : an interpretive essay / Julie Hessler --
The two faces of Tatiana Matveevna / Yuri Slezkine --
Examining the Soviet past : culture, identity, and the state --
Military occupation and social unrest : daily life in Russian Poland at the start of the WWI / Joshua A. Sanborn --
Seeing like a Soviet state : settlement of nomadic Kazakhs, 1928-34 / Matthew Payne --
Counter-narratives of Soviet life : Kulak special settlers in the first person / Lynne Viola --
Gender, marriage, and reproduction in the postwar Soviet Union / Mie Nakachi --
Collective action in Soviet society : the case of war veterans / Mark Edele --
"Shostakovich, et al." and the Iron Curtain : intellectual property and the development of a Soviet strategy of cultural confrontation, 1948-1949 / Kiril Tomoff --
A torture memo : reading violence in the Gulag / Golfo Alexopoulos --
Stalin, Khrushchev, and the spaceman / Jim Andrews --
Reminiscences: Peter Nicholls; David Fitzpatrick; Barbara Gillam; Jerry Hough; Efim Iosifovich Pivovar; Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kozlov; Leora Auslander; Alison Edwards; Katerina Clark; Kiril Tomoff.
Responsibility: edited by Golfo Alexopoulos, Julie Hessler, and Kiril Tomoff.

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Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy  Read more...
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