Fitzpatrick – författare

In the 1930s many Western intellectuals looked with hope and admiration at the great `Soviet experiment', the planned transformation of the economy that was supposed to lay the foundation for the world's first socialist society. Later, with the onset of the Cold War, the image of the `Evil Empire' predominated in the mind of Westerners. Yet what was it really like to be a citizen of Soviet Russia during this period? Everyday Stalinism is a pioneering history of everyday life in Soviet Russia. Rather than consider the history of the period from the perspective of the Soviet Party and its leaders, Sheila Fitzpatrick considers what life was like for ordinary people. A highly accessible study, Everyday Stalinism shows the ways of life, behaviours, and skills developed by citizens in order to cope with the extraordinary social and political change that Stalinism brought, ranging from scarcity of consumer goods, to the condemnation of religion, to bureaucratic red tape and state regulation of education, jobs, and career advancement.

This book looks at the progressive movement through the careers of four women, the first American women to be trained as social scientists in the research universities of late nineteenth-century America. The book looks at the impact of late nineteenth-century social science on reform and finds that the research universities were important intellectual determinants of the welfare state.

The collectivization of Russian farms was the cornerstone of Soviet agricultural policy during the 1930s. Fitzpatrick's book, about Soviet forced collectivization and its impact on the Russian village, will be the first in Western or Soviet literature to explore the dramatic transformation of peasant life caused by collectivization. It is based on new and unknown material from recently-opened Soviet archives. In this richly textured and fascinatingly detailed book, the author analyses the peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the state-inflicted drama of the collectivized village. For the first time it is possible to see real people behind the facade of the Soviet propaganda account of the happy "Potemkin Village". The regime's own strategy involved humiliation and violence.Fitzpatrick's study is truly a landmark in studies of the Stalinist period - a thickly-documented social history told from the traumatic experiences of that long-suffering underclass of peasants. Her study has been called a "breakthrough" by specialists in her field and will affect how the history of the Soviet period will be done by subsequent generations of scholars.

This topical collection examines a wide variety of themes and topics which links the environment to social policy and welfare. Represents the best current work on the realignment of social policy to confront environmental issues. Presents a challenging socio-environmental agenda for social policy. Examines a wide range of themes and topics which link the environment and social policy and welfare.