A post for Women’s History Month A few weeks ago whilst preparing for my final-year undergraduate Dostoevsky class I plucked an old translation from my shelf that I’d bought a couple of years previously at the Amnesty shop in Shoreditch boxpark. I’d barely looked at it before – I tend to collect old Dostoevsky translations […]
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Discovering Ivy Litvinov
Posted by Sarah Young on March 3, 2014
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2014/03/03/discovering-ivy-litvinov/
Russians in London: Lenin
I’m no fan of Lenin, but he spent a good deal of time in London, so must be included in this series. I haven’t chosen this mugshot as an expression of my disapproval – it’s just that most of the photos that are available were taken after the revolution, and this one is the closest […]
Posted by Sarah Young on January 16, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/01/16/russians-in-london-lenin/