Yesterday’s highlight was indeed the panel on visualizations of imprisonment, in which Judith Pallot and Sonia Gavrilova presented the Mapping the Gulag project, and Josephine von Zitzewitz talked about the new version of Memorial’s Virtual Gulag Museum. I’ve already written about the museum, and the new version (due to go live in the middle of […]
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Blogging from BASEES (2)
Posted by Sarah Young on March 29, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/29/blogging-from-basees-2/
Shalamov: connections
One of the most intriguing aspects of Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales is connections between the stories. These take a large variety of forms. Within the six collections, there are clusters of stories that are linked in different ways: by chronology (‘The Lawyers’ Plot’ and ‘Typhoid Quarantine’; ‘June’ and ‘May; ‘Chasing Engine Steam’ and ‘The Train’), location (such […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 18, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/18/shalamov-connections/
Four short links: the Stalin era
1. Stalinka: Digital Archive of Staliniana. Lots of images (593 to be precise), including photos, posters, paintings, cartoons, and even a few pictures from the Blue Noses Group’s 2007 Naked Truth series (if you’ve never seen them, and aren’t easily offended, do take a look). Those works notwithstanding, I’m somewhat dubious about the concept of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on March 13, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/13/four-short-links-the-stalin-era/
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
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/03/06/four-short-links-resources-on-pre-revolutionary-russia/
Shalamov.ru
I’ve been meaning for a while to write something about this site, to which I’m a pretty frequent visitor. Shalamov.ru was launched in December 2008 and has grown amazingly quickly over the last year and a bit. It’s become one of the best resources on an individual writer that I’ve come across. It contains electronic […]
Posted by Sarah Young on February 23, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/02/23/shalamov-ru/
Fairytale and reality in Gulag narratives
The fairytale metaphor is a recurring feature a large number of Gulag narratives, both fictional and non-fictional, and it stands out because most of these texts are otherwise determinedly unmetaphoric. Amid the stark language habitually used to narrate the experience of the Gulag, aimed at depicting the harshness of reality, there are recurring images of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on December 21, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/12/21/fairytale-and-reality-in-gulag-narratives/
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
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/11/12/not-thrilled/
My work (3)
The articles and papers section (see list on the right), has a new addition, Shalamov’s symbolism, which I presented at a conference a couple of years ago. This is an on-going piece of work and ultimately it will form the basis of one of the chapters of my book on Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales. Anyway, it […]
Posted by Sarah Young on November 1, 2009
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/11/01/my-work-3/
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
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2009/10/18/russian-history-under-threat-again/