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The Gulag fantastic?

I have just finished teaching a new cross-cultural course, Tales of the Unexpected, with my colleague Peter Zusi. A whistle-stop tour through the fantastic and supernatural from the Grimm brothers to H. P. Lovecraft, the course has been great fun, but beyond the appearance of Gogol (his Ukrainian folktale ‘Vii’) and Dostoevsky (the classic work […]

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by on April 7, 2014  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sarah Young on April 7, 2014

https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2014/04/07/the-gulag-fantastic/

The games Russian boys play

Whilst doing some research for my Russians in London series (to be resumed at some unspecified point), I came across a truly unexpected document from the pages of Chums, a middle-class boys’ weekly magazine published between 1892 and 1941, later associated with the scout movement, but in its early years probably most notable for its […]

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by on October 16, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by Sarah Young on October 16, 2011

https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/10/16/the-games-russian-boys-play/