Professional Affiliation

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Russian History and the College, University of Chicago

Expert Bio

Sheila Fitzpatrick is the author of many books, including On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (Princeton), The Shortest History of the Soviet Union, and The Russian Revolution. She is professor of history at the Institute of Humanities and Social Science at the Australian Catholic University and Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago.

Wilson Center Project

The Politics of Soviet Industrialization, 1928 - 1932