Julia Herzberg Announces New Publication
Gegenarchive
22.03.2013 at 00:00
Julia Herzberg, Research Fellow, has published a new book with Transcript. After serfdom was abolished in 1861, the peasant became the symbol of a society in flux. In autobiographies and diaries, peasants told of their lives as slaves, autodidacts, and religious visionaries and won over a readership that found in these texts not only the supposedly “authentic” peasants, but also alternative models of society. Julia Herzberg analyses the production, publication, and reception of these Gegenarchive (counter-archives) through the 1930s.
Julia joined the Rachel Carson Center in 2009. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of late imperial Russia. She has published on the history of autobiography, religion, archival history, and historiography.