I’ve been interested in old photos of Russia since visiting a fabulous exhibition at the Manezh in St Petersburg in late 2004. I still have vivid memories of pictures of the elderly Tolstoy riding his horse with his beard streaming, and a fascinating set of photos of the first trams in Petersburg. My love of [...]
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Four short links: old Russian photos
Posted by Sarah Young on August 26, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/08/26/four-short-links-old-russian-photos/
Villains and Victims
I’ve just got back from a conference at the University of Nottingham, organized by Sarah Badcock in the History department, entitled ‘Villains and Victims: Justice, violence and retribution in late Imperial and early Soviet Russia.’ It was a small, workshop-style conference with a couple of dozen participants, and like many of the other people there, [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 8, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/04/08/villains-and-victims/
Ephemerality and versionality
I know I said my next post would explore some aspects of the connections in Shalamov, and that will be coming up soon, but for now… At the inaugural UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Decoding Digital Humanities event, a wide-ranging discussion initiated by our reading of Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 23, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/23/ephemerality-and-versionality/
Four short links: resources on pre-revolutionary Russia
1. Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909. Nice research archive of images and texts from the period, with lots of search options. Good for finding interesting and unexpected things, though occasionally difficult to find the images you’re actually looking for. A lot of the images are in black and white, which seems odd [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 6, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/06/four-short-links-resources-on-pre-revolutionary-russia/
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/
Four short links: eat, drink and be merry
Or… Four slightly random Russian-related things that have very little in common other than the fact that they’re somewhat more fun that my usual preoccupations. The first two are my favourite Russian news stories from the last few days — they certainly make a change from the usual fare. My thanks to John for alerting [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on January 31, 2010
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/01/31/four-short-links-eat-drink-and-be-merry/
Not thrilled
Although I’m probably an intellectual snob in some ways, I’m quite happy to admit I enjoy a good thriller, particularly during term time when I get so exhausted that my bedtime reading has to be fairly undemanding. And given my fascination with all things Russian, I like reading about Russia in my spare time as [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on November 12, 2009
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/11/12/not-thrilled/
Russian history under threat, again
I was planning to write about something entirely different today, but the arrest of Mikhail Suprun, a historian from Arkhangelsk who is researching Germans sent to the Gulag in the Stalin era, is worrying news which deserves comment. This is the most recent in a series of attacks on academic freedom and integrity relating to [...]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 18, 2009
http://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/10/18/russian-history-under-threat-again/
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