Revolution on My Mind Writing a Diary under Stalin

Name: Revolution on My Mind Writing a Diary under Stalin
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ISBN: 9780674032316

ISBN-10: 0674032314

ISBN-13: 9780674032316

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jochen Hellbeck, J. Hellbeck

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Revolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia. We see into the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Writing a diary, like other creative expression, seems nearly impossible amid the fear and distrust of totalitarian rule; but as Jochen Hellbeck shows, diary-keeping was widespread, as individuals struggled to adjust to Stalin's regime.Rather than protect themselves against totalitarianism, many men and women bent their will to its demands, by striving to merge their individual identities with the collective and by battling vestiges of the old self within. We…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.09" wide x 8.19" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Prologue: Forging the Revolutionary Self



Rearing Conscious Citizens



Bolshevik Views of the Diary



Laboratories of the Soul



Intelligentsia on Trial: Zinaida Denisevskaya



Secrets of a Class Enemy: Stepan Podlubny



The Diary of a New Man: Leonid Potemkin



Stalin's Inkwell: Alexander Afinogenov



The Urge to Struggle On


Notes


Note on Sources


Acknowledgments


Index