Sheila Fitzpatrick Interview Transcript

The Death of Stalin and the History of USSR/Russia

This post is the first in my new feature - full edited transcripts of the interviews I have conducted with distinguished historians since 2023 in the Burning Archive.

The interview videos and transcripts will all be indexed and available at my new Interview Transcripts page. It makes them more conveniently available than on YouTube.

Thanks to Michael Peck for initiating this idea and assisting with this first transcript.

Sheila Fitzpatrick. Interview Historian Sheila Fitzpatrick on The Death of Stalin & the Cold War One and Cold War Two. (14 June 2025)

Interview June 2025 with historian of Soviet Union and Russia, Sheila Fitzpatrick

YouTube video of the interview.

Transcript of the Interview

Sheila Fitzpatrick's brilliant new 100-page history, The Death of Stalin is available to buy here: https://amzn.to/4e2CvkH.

Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick is her generation’s leading English-language historian of the Soviet Union. Her work has transformed the study of Soviet history, in particular scholarship on the Russian revolution and the Stalin years.

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