Outputs (2)

Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village (2023)
Journal Article
Badcock, S. (2023). Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S008044012300021X

What was daily life like for old people in Russian villages at the turn of the twentieth century? Elderly people feature as an integral part of Russian rural family life in literary and in scholarly accounts, and are predominantly framed as able, ski... Read More about Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village.

Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia (2023)
Journal Article
Badcock, S., & Cowan, F. (2023). Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia. Russian Review, 82(4), 649-667. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12497

This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower-class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower-c... Read More about Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia.