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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, https://doi.org/10.1017/S008044012300021X

This article seeks to contribute to our understandings of old age in historical context through its focus on the experiences of and perceptions about older people in late Imperial Russian villages. Elderly people feature as an integral part of Russia... 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.

The Revolution on the Volga (2022)
Book Chapter
BADCOCK, S. (2023). The Revolution on the Volga. In G. Swain, C. Alston, M. C. Hickey, B. Kolonitsky, & F. Schedewie (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution. Bloomsbury Publishing

While revolutionary narratives often focus on Petrograd as the seat of political power, and more broadly on urban and military arenas, this chapter explores the lived experience of revolution in the Volga region, around 1500 kilometres from Petrograd... Read More about The Revolution on the Volga.

Travel to Siberian exile, 1905-1917 (2019)
Book Chapter
Badcock, S. (2019). Travel to Siberian exile, 1905-1917. In Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past, 32-45. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Personal and political networks in 1917: Vladimir Zenzinov and the Socialist Revolutionary Party (2016)
Journal Article
Badcock, S. (2016). Personal and political networks in 1917: Vladimir Zenzinov and the Socialist Revolutionary Party. Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1163/22102388-00900008

This article explores the place of individuals, ideologies and personal and political networks in shaping the larger political landscape in revolutionary Russia. The shape and culture of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (psr) will be at the heart of... Read More about Personal and political networks in 1917: Vladimir Zenzinov and the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

Structures and practices of power: 1917 in Nizhegorod and Kazan’ provinces (2015)
Book Chapter
Badcock, S. (2015). Structures and practices of power: 1917 in Nizhegorod and Kazan’ provinces. In A. B. Retish, S. Badcock, & . L. G. Novikova (Eds.), Russia's home front in war and revolution, 1914-22: Book 1. Russia's revolution In regional perspective, 355-382. Slavica Publishers

From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile (2013)
Journal Article
Badcock, S. (2013). From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile. Europe-Asia Studies, 65(9), https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2013.840116

This essay presents the subjective experience of life and sickness for the punished in late Imperial Siberia, and the distinctions the punished made between legitimate and illegitimate forms of punishment. The essay also explores state policies towar... Read More about From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile.

Autocracy in crisis: Nicholas the last (2005)
Book Chapter
Badcock, S. (2005). Autocracy in crisis: Nicholas the last. In I. Thatcher (Ed.), Late Imperial Russia : Problems and prospects. , (9-27). Manchester University Press