A Spy in the Archives

Sheila Fitzpatrick

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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
02 September 2013

Memoirs; The Cold War; Biography - Australian

Sheila Fitzpatrick was outed as all but a spy in a Soviet newspaper in 1968

In 1968 historian Sheila Fitzpatrick was 'outed' by the Russian newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya as all but a spy for Western intelligence. She was in Moscow at the time, working in Soviet archives for her doctoral thesis on AV Lunacharsky, the first Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

Despite KGB attention, and the impossibility of finding a suitable winter coat, Sheila felt more at ease in Moscow than in Britain-a feeling cemented by her friendships with Lunacharsky's daughter, Irina, and brother-in-law, Igor, a reform-minded old Bolshevik who became a surrogate father and a intellectual mentor. An affair with young Communist activist, Sasha, pulled her further into a world in which she already felt at home. For the Soviet authorities and archives, however, she would always be marked as a foreigner, and so potentially a spy.

Punctuated by letters to her mother in Melbourne and her diary entries of the time, and borne along by Fitzpatrick's wry, insightful narrative, A Spy in the Archives captures the life and times of Cold War Russia.

By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Imprint: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 371g
ISBN: 9780522861181
ISBN 10: 0522861180
Publication Date: 02 September 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

In the early 1970s Shelia Fitzpatrick moved from Britain to the United States and made my career as a Soviet historian there. She ran into trouble with American Sovietologists for being 'soft on communism' (their version) in other words, trying to write an objective, i.e. non-partisan, Soviet history By the 1990s she was considered a founder of the field of Soviet history. A past president of the US national Slavic studies association, winner of a Andrew Mellon Foundation award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities in 2002, an invited Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and currently Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Russian History at the University of Chicago.

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A Spy in the Archives

Sheila Fitzpatrick

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