A post for Women’s History Month A few weeks ago whilst preparing for my final-year undergraduate Dostoevsky class I plucked an old translation from my shelf that I’d bought a couple of years previously at the Amnesty shop in Shoreditch boxpark. I’d barely looked at it before – I tend to collect old Dostoevsky translations […]
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Discovering Ivy Litvinov
Posted by Sarah Young on March 3, 2014
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2014/03/03/discovering-ivy-litvinov/
Atamansha
According to one of my mailing lists, a poll to identify the women who best symbolize modern-day Russia has seen the top two places given to ageing lite entertainment diva and staple of celebrity gossip magazines, Alla Pugacheva (I could never see the point, even ironically – perhaps because I like music), and the arch-Putinite […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 8, 2011
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/03/08/atamansha/
Krupskaya: an apology
I’ve been criticized by my boyfriend for my unsisterly (although true — even he admits it) comment about Nadezhda Krupskaya in a recent post. So, I apologise, and instead will enumerate some of the many valid reasons there are to dislike the woman. There is, of course, her dreadful hagiography, Reminiscences of Lenin. And the fact […]
Posted by Sarah Young on February 16, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/02/16/krupskaya-an-apology/