{"product_id":"1989-by-sheila-fitzpatrick-preorder","title":"1989 by Sheila Fitzpatrick (PREORDER)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eI understood for the first time during perestroika what it must have been like in \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRussia's February Revolution … when, as participants remembered, everything \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eseemed possible and the barriers and lack of trust that normally divide people from \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eeach other miraculously disappeared.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn April 1989, on a flight from New York to Texas, Sheila Fitzpatrick, an Australian historian of the Soviet Union, met Misha Danos, a Latvian-born physicist working in Washington DC. It was a year of revolutions in the USSR, culminating in the fall of the Berlin Wall in November – an extraordinary time to be a Sovietologist – but 1989 proved equally seismic in Fitzpatrick's private life. Unexpectedly but joyfully, she and Misha were soon partners in an \"improbably happy marriage\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this exceptional memoir, written with searching honesty and self-awareness, Fitzpatrick revisits the years she spent with the deep-thinking and forthright Misha before his untimely death in 1999, and his lasting effect on her. This is also a book about the Cold War – how it came to an end, how that felt and what emerged to fill the void it left behind. It is a deeply personal exploration of the politics of change and rebirth, of old and new ways of thinking, and of the lessons we learn amid the swirl of life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46341135499399,"sku":"9781760645076","price":36.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0313\/7211\/6103\/files\/1989_online.jpg?v=1793162463","url":"https:\/\/shop.schwartzbooks.com.au\/products\/1989-by-sheila-fitzpatrick-preorder","provider":"Schwartz Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}