Whilst planning a section of my chapter on pre-revolutionary works on Siberian prison and exile, I’ve been considering the role of images as well as the words, as many of the books I’ve been reading – at least most of those published after around 1880 in the UK and the States, and after around 1900 […]
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Katorga and exile illustrated
Posted by Sarah Young on August 13, 2014
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2014/08/13/katorga-and-exile-illustrated/
Convicts and serfs: two books on Russian penal reform
I’m currently reading and re-reading material for a chapter of my book on narratives of prison, exile and hard labour, and have a few thoughts to put in order in relation to two books on Russian penal reform: Bruce F. Adams, The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia 1863-1917 (DeKalb: North Illinois University Press, 1996) Abby […]
Posted by Sarah Young on August 1, 2014
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2014/08/01/convicts-and-serfs-two-books-on-russian-penal-reform/
New article: Knowing Russia’s Convicts
This week has finally seen the publication of my article ‘Knowing Russia’s Convicts: the Other in Narratives of Imprisonment and Exile in the Late Imperial Era’ in Europe-Asia Studies. It’s a special issue based on the Villains and Victims workshop which I wrote about previously, and it contains some great articles that really reflect what an […]
Posted by Sarah Young on November 3, 2013
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2013/11/03/new-article-knowing-russias-convicts/