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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778015503321

Autore

Hellbeck Jochen

Titolo

Revolution on My Mind : Writing a Diary under Stalin / / Jochen Hellbeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2009]

©2006

ISBN

0-674-03853-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p. ) : ill

Classificazione

KH 1910

Disciplina

947.084/2092247

Soggetti

Russian diaries - History

Political persecution - Soviet Union

Electronic books.

Soviet Union Biography

Soviet Union Politics and government 1936-1953

Soviet Union Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: FORGING THE REVOLUTIONARY SELF -- 1. Rearing Conscious Citizens -- 2. Bolshevik Views of the Diary -- 3. Laboratories of the Soul -- 4. Intelligentsia on Trial ZINAIDA DENISEVSKAYA -- 5. Secrets of a Class Enemy: STEPAN PODLUBNY -- 6. The Diary of a New Man: LEONID POTEMKIN -- 7. Stalin's Inkwell: ALEXANDER AFINOGENOV -- 8. The Urge to Struggle On -- Notes -- Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Revolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia, showing us the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives in diaries during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Jochen Hellbeck brings us face to face with gripping and unforgettably poignant life stories. This book brilliantly explores the forging of the revolutionary self in a study that speaks to the evolution of the individual in mass movements of our own time.