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Sheila Fitzpatrick

Political Tourists: : Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s–1940s edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen

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July–August 2008, no. 303
John Thompson reviews 'Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s–1940s' edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn

In the years between the two world wars, the young Soviet Union was, for socialist intellectuals and many liberals in the West, a social laboratory, one that held the promise of a new world order. Inspired by the transforming power and promise of the October Revolution of 1917, some were drawn to admiration of the great Socialist Experiment ‘in a land where revolutionaries were trying to create a socialist society based on the principles of central economic planning’.

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Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sheila Fitzpatrick

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November 2007, no. 296
Nick Fischer reviews 'Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics' edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sheila Fitzpatrick

Against The Grain celebrates two iconoclastic Australian historians: Manning Clark and Brian Fitzpatrick. Comprising papers from a 2006 conference organised by two of their daughters, both distinguished academics, Against the Grain offers critical thoughts and reminiscences of family members, friends, colleagues, students and academic successors of the two men.

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