I recently received a comment from Helen Rappaport, responding to the criticisms I made of of her book Conspirator: Lenin in Exile (New York: Perseus, 2010) in my post on Lenin in London. You can read her comments on my Contact Me page, but I have decided to reply here rather than there, as I […]
All posts for the month February, 2011
Lenin in London: A Reply to Helen Rappaport
Posted by Sarah Young on February 27, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/02/27/lenin-in-london-a-reply-to-helen-rappaport/
Blogs and academic publishing
This week has seen the launch of the Russian History Blog, a collaborative project that has already featured, among other things, a review of the Gulag escape film The Way Back, addressing questions surrounding the authenticity of the book it is based on, Slavomir Rawicz’s The Long Walk, and a discussion of a very significant […]
Posted by Sarah Young on February 20, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/02/20/blogs-academic-publishing/
Top Ten Murders in Russian Literature
This is the first in a new occasional series in which I’ll look at different aspects of Russian literature through a ‘Top Ten’, and hopefully give people a few reading ideas. My main rule is that writers may only have one entry in any given list. Which makes my first subject slightly trickier than it […]
Posted by Sarah Young on February 11, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/02/11/top-ten-murders-in-russian-literature/
Four short links: Russian oddments
1. Hermitage cats. For over 250 years – with a break during the siege when they sadly all perished – the Hermitage has been home to an army of 50 or so cats, and every year the museum holds a Cat Day in March with lots of cat-related events to celebrate the Winter Palace’s most […]
Posted by Sarah Young on February 5, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/02/05/four-short-links-russian-oddments/