Readings: Alexander Herzen, “The Russian People and Socialism” (1851); Petr Lavrov, “Historical Letters” (1868-9); Nikolai Mikhailovskii, “What is Progress?” (1869); Mikhail Bakunin, “Statism and Anarchy, Appendix A” (1873) Unlike the other movements we have studied in this course so far, which have been purely theoretical, the subject of today’s lecture – Populism (narodnichestvo), and related […]
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Dostoevsky and the Gulag
I’ve started work on a paper on the depiction of criminals in labour camp writing for a workshop later this summer, and as Dostoevsky is one of my starting points, this has led me to revisit the broader question of the role of recurrent references to him in Gulag literature. This post is not intended […]
Posted by Sarah Young on May 6, 2012
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2012/05/06/dostoevsky-and-the-gulag/
The games Russian boys play
Whilst doing some research for my Russians in London series (to be resumed at some unspecified point), I came across a truly unexpected document from the pages of Chums, a middle-class boys’ weekly magazine published between 1892 and 1941, later associated with the scout movement, but in its early years probably most notable for its […]
Posted by Sarah Young on October 16, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/10/16/the-games-russian-boys-play/
Top ten beards in Russian literature
I know I said I’d write another post about Mapping Petersburg, but I’m still thinking about that, so in the mean time, another top ten. But this time it is not the works, but the writers themselves, and specifically their facial adornments, that interest me. Beards, as Elif Batuman has affirmed, are hugely important to […]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 20, 2011
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2011/04/20/top-ten-beards-in-russian-literature/
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: Turgenev
In the history of Russians in London, Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) in many ways acts as a transitional figure, because although most of his visits were quite short (except during the Franco-Prussian war, when he decamped to England for a year), they were frequent, and span a much longer period than those of his contemporaries. He […]
Posted by Sarah Young on December 26, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/12/26/russians-in-london-turgenev/
Russians in London: Introduction
Over the next few weeks, I will be publishing a series of posts entitled ‘Russians in London’. The project came to mind when I was researching Dostoevsky and the Crystal Palace earlier this year. I started thinking about his description of Whitechapel and the Haymarket in Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, and imagined him haunting […]
Posted by Sarah Young on November 21, 2010
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2010/11/21/russians-in-london-introduction/