Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on November 17, 2026 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Sheila Fitzpatrick. Moderated by Elise Giuliano.
As a US-based Soviet historian, Fitzpatrick was in and out of the Soviet Union during perestroika and the early post-Soviet period, doing research in newly opened archives but also talking to people and generally keeping her eyes open. Moscow, Leningrad/St Petersburg, Sverdlovsk. Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, and Riga were the main ports of call. This talk is drawn from her forthcoming memoir 1989: a Perestroika Love Story.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, a historian of the Soviet Union and Russian migration, is Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne and the University of Sydney. She writes regularly for The London Review of Books. Her recent books are White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia (2021), The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (2022), Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War (2024) and The Death of Stalin (2025). Her memoir 1989: a Perestroika Love Story will be published in April 2027.
