I’m currently working on a book chapter about the body in labour camp narratives. This was actually pretty much the starting point for my current research, so I’m in part revisiting an article published in Gulag Studies in 2008 on the Gulag body and self-mutilation. More recently, I’ve been thinking about the representation of different […]
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Assessing sources: Russian criminal tattoos
Posted by Sarah Young on March 6, 2017
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2017/03/06/assessing-sources-russian-criminal-tattoos/
Historical memory of the Gulag (3): Contested memory
The failure to establish a central memorial to the victims of the Gulag mentioned in my previous post is part of a problem of contested memory that has been apparent since the demise of the Soviet Union but has escalated in the last decade or so. As Arseny Roginsky’s eloquent essay The Embrace of Stalinism shows, […]
Posted by Sarah Young on September 17, 2015
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2015/09/17/historical-memory-of-the-gulag-3-contested-memory/
Judging books by their covers
As part of some work on Vasily Grossman (about which more anon), I’ve been catching up with my reading on Gulag history. Stephen Cohen’s The Victims Return finally arrived at the library, so I went to get it out. The first thing that struck me was how similar its cover was to another recent book on Gulag […]
Posted by Sarah Young on August 29, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/08/29/judging-books-by-covers/
BASEES highlights
I was only able to visit a small number of panels at BASEES last weekend, and the ones I chose were a bit of a departure from my usual interests, but there were some very good papers. I was sorry to miss the first half of Hubert Bergmann’s paper on Russophilia in the German youth […]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 5, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/04/05/basees-highlights/
Merthyr Tydfil: the cradle of civilization
Merthyr Tydfil is one of my other interests, because of family connections and most importantly a great-great-uncle, D.B. Davies, who played rugby league for Merthyr and Wales in the early 1900s. (D.B. stands for Dai ‘Brecon Road’ Davies, to distinguish him from the other Dai Davies on the Merthyr team; here are some old photos […]
Posted by Sarah Young on May 9, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/05/09/merthyr-tydfil-the-cradle-of-civilization/