# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sheila-fitzpatrick
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:29:47.397Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sheila-fitzpatrick"
name: "Sheila Fitzpatrick"
slug: "sheila-fitzpatrick"
description: "Sheila Mary Fitzpatrick is an Australian historian, whose main subjects are history of the Soviet Union and history of modern Russia, especially the Stalin era and the Great Purges, of which she proposes a \"history from below\", and is part of the \"revisionist school\" of Communist historiography. She has also critically reviewed the concept of totalitarianism and highlighted the differences between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in debates about comparison of Nazism and Stalinism."
tagline: "Australian and American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sheila_Fitzpatrick.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-06-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.064516129032258
  historical:           15.79014666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Sheila Fitzpatrick"
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    title: "Sheila Fitzpatrick"
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    title: "Sheila Fitzpatrick"
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    title: "Sheila Fitzpatrick"
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    title: "Sheila Fitzpatrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sheila Fitzpatrick"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump