Readings: Vissarion Belinsky, “Society and the Individual” (1839) extracts from “Letters to Botkin” (1840-1841) and “Letter to Gogol” (1847); Alexander Herzen, extracts from “Dilettantism in Science” (1843) “From the Other Shore” (1848-9) and “Robert Owen” (1861). Having examined the Slavophiles and the development of the idea of communality as a specifically Russian phenomenon, we now […]
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Russian thought lecture 3: The Westernizers and concepts of the self: from reconciliation to action
Posted by Sarah Young on November 8, 2012
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/11/08/russian-thought-lecture-3-the-westernizers-and-concepts-of-the-self-from-reconciliation-to-action/
Russian Thought Lecture 1: Petr Chaadaev and the Russian Question
Readings: Petr Chaadaev, “First Philosophical Letter” and “Apologia of a Madman” Before we get on to Chaadaev, the first question we must address is why he acts as the starting point for our exploration of Russian intellectual history. Chaadaev did not invent Russian philosophy; there was already a significant tradition of philosophical and polemical writing […]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 10, 2012
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/10/10/russian-thought-lecture-1-petr-chaadaev-and-the-russian-question/
An Appeal to Public Opinion
Published in 1916 in response to the proposal to deport Russian immigrants to Britain if they refused to serve in the British army. AN APPEAL TO PUBLIC OPINION: SHOULD THE RUSSIAN REFUGEES BE DEPORTED? By the Committee of Delegates of the Russian Socialist Groups in London National Labour Press Ltd., 74 Swinton Street, London, W.C. […]
Posted by Sarah Young on January 28, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/documents-2/an-appeal-to-public-opinion/
Crystal Palace Literature
Now I’ve recovered from the unbearable strain of watching Crystal Palace’s game against Sheffield Wednesday and can breathe a sigh of relief as we’ve avoided relegation, I can get back to the Crystal Palace itself and continue my musings on some of its representations in literature. The Crystal Palace first appeared in fiction in the […]
Posted by Sarah Young on May 2, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/05/02/crystal-palace-literature/
Gulag narratives: recommended reading
A short annotated list of recommended narratives about the Gulag (very broadly conceived), both fictional and non-fictional, by survivors and others. It includes a few pre-revolutionary narratives, on the grounds that these texts founded a tradition of writing on prison/exile in Russia and therefore they belong in the same list — sometimes too much categorization […]
Posted by Sarah Young on November 9, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/reading-lists/gulag-narratives/