Monthly Archives: December 2015
Ivanovo: Vagrants and beggars
Vagrancy was a nearly constant background issue throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It shows up all over, in legislation about internal passports, in newspaper notices announcing arrested vagrants, in state concerns about what people are doing. I particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Imperial Russia, Ivanovo
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What’s in a Strikethrough?
Can a simple manuscript strikethrough be a sign of deep affection? I’m currently writing a book on Alzhir, a special Gulag camp division designed to hold women arrested during the so-called Great Terror of 1937-1938 as “family members of traitors … Continue reading
Posted in Gender and Sexuality, Gulag, Kazakhstan, Soviet Era 1917-1991
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