Revolution on my mind
Subtitle: writing a diary under Stalin
By: Jochen Hellbeck
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780674021747
Subjects: Dagboeken; Sozialistische Lebensweise; Slachtoffers; Alltag; Russian diaries; Geschichte; Biographie; Tagebuch; Politics and government; Verfolgung; Politische Verfolgung; Tagebuchaufzeichnung; Political persecution; Soziale Situation; Stalinisme; Social conditions; Memoiren; Identität; Biography; Stalinismus
Description: Revealing the inner world of Stalin's Russia, this book shows diary-keeping was widespread as individuals struggled to adjust to Stalin's regime. It explores the forging of the revolutionary self, a study without precedent that speaks to the evolution of the individual in mass movements of our own time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-419) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Forging the revolutionary self; title: Rearing conscious citizens; title: Bolshevik views of the diary; title: Laboratories of the soul; title: Intelligentsia on trial: Zinaida Denisevskaya; title: Secrets of a class enemy: Stepan Podlubny; title: The diary of a new man: Leonid Potemkin; title: Stalin's inkwell: Alexander Afinogenov; title: The urge to struggle on.