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Mischka's War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
On a winter's day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods-a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. The world was full of such atrocities, which makes Mischka?s decision to escape conscription to the Waffen-SS by going ...Show more
On Stalin's Team the Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
This a new approach to Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union, focused on the political team he formed in the second half of the 1920s that was still in existence (though in modified form) thirty years later. This book spans the whole period from the mid 1920s to the mid 1950sandmdash;an intensely dramatic t ...Show more
Spy in the Archives by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
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 Bolshevi ...Show more
The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: revised edtion
The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution, Fitzpat ...Show more
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of an empire made and an empire undone - and what emerged from the ashes - by one of the world's leading authorities on Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia arrived in the world accidentally and departed unexpectedly. More than a hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the tumultuous history of t ...Show more
White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A gripping account of the paths that led postwar Russian migrants to Australia - and what they found when they arrived.More than 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after the Second World War - yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in E ...Show more
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