I recently received a comment from Helen Rappaport, responding to the criticisms I made of of her book Conspirator: Lenin in Exile (New York: Perseus, 2010) in my post on Lenin in London. You can read her comments on my Contact Me page, but I have decided to reply here rather than there, as I […]
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Lenin in London: A Reply to Helen Rappaport
Posted by Sarah Young on February 27, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/02/27/lenin-in-london-a-reply-to-helen-rappaport/
Russians in London: the anarchist threat
For my final post in the series (for now), I want to discuss events rather than individuals. As a couple of my recent posts have suggested, by the end of the nineteenth century, the nature and number of Russian visitors to, and settlers in, London had changed considerably. It was no longer the preserve of […]
Posted by Sarah Young on January 31, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/01/31/russians-in-london-the-anarchist-threat/
Russians in London: Russian and Jewish radicals
In this post, the penultimate in the series, instead of focusing on a single figure, I’m going to explore one of the lines that connects Russian radicals, and in particular their agitational/publishing activities, to the work of their Russian-Jewish counterparts. Some may suggest that this stretches the definition of ‘Russians’ too far, as Jews would […]
Posted by Sarah Young on January 23, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/01/23/russians-in-london-russian-and-jewish-radicals/
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/
Kropotkin: an addendum
I’ve finally got round to reading Rudolf Rocker, The London Years, trans. Joseph Leftwich (Nottingham: Five Leaves; Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2005). It’s a powerful and readable book, even if the translation is a bit clunky. Among many points of interest, it contains a couple of marvellous descriptions of Kropotkin that really give a very strong […]
Posted by Sarah Young on January 12, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/01/12/kropotkin-an-addendum/