As regular readers will know, I am currently working on a book manuscript on the Russian tradition of prison and exile writing, from the tsarist era to the present day. This is a subject that generally focuses, with good reason, on the victims’ perspective, and many people will disagree with the idea of including Stalinist […]
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Reading Gulag propaganda
Posted by Sarah Young on November 9, 2015
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2015/11/09/reading-gulag-propaganda/
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/