My most recent publication is an article on Dostoevsky’s early works, ‘Hesitation, projection and desire: the fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s early works‘, in Modern Langua...
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2019/11/14/unexpected-turns-in-my-dostoevsky-studies/
This site has been somewhat dormant of late, but a radio appearance has inspired me to make a brief return (news on other stuff to follow). Today I appeared on BBC Radio 4’s programme In Our Ti...
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2019/11/14/talking-crime-and-punishment/
How might we think of Dostoevsky as a radical writer? In his later years he certainly seemed anything but. From his searing critique of nihilist ideas in Notes from Underground and Crime and Puni...
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2017/10/02/revolutionary-dostoevsky/
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 arti...
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2017/03/06/assessing-sources-russian-criminal-tattoos/
Some years ago, when this blog was a new venture, I started an annotated reading list of Russian and Soviet labour camp narratives. My aim initially was to expand it over time, but as one so ofte...
For the last few days on Twitter @RodionTweets has been tweeting Crime and Punishment in real time from Raskolnikov’s perspective. A collaborative project developed by a group of North-American...
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2016/07/11/raskolnikov-on-twitter/
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 gen...
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2015/11/09/reading-gulag-propaganda/
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 Sovie...
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2015/09/17/historical-memory-of-the-gulag-3-contested-memory/
Since the final years of the Soviet Union, memorializing the victims of the political repressions – in itself a curious formulation that indicates some of the problems associated with this subj...
I’ve been thinking about historical memory of the Gulag and the Stalinist repressions recently whilst working on my book, and have decided to put together a few posts of links relating to the s...
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2015/05/01/historical-memory-of-the-gulag-1-memory-books/