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Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary under Stalin. Byjochen Hellbeck. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. xi, 436 pp. Notes. Index. $29.95, hard bound.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Ronald Grigor Suny*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan

Abstract

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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 2007

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References

1. Etkin, Alexander, “Soviet Subjectivity: Torture for the Sake of Salvation?KritiKa 6, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 177.Google Scholar

2. Lugovskaia, Nina, TheDiary of a Soviet Schoolgirl, 1932-1937 (Moscow, 2003).Google Scholar This point, as well as other of my thoughts in this essay, is indebted to conversations widi and readings of reviews by Lewis Siegelbaum. For a sense of the variety of Soviet subjectivities, see the first-person narratives in Garros, Veronique, Korenevskaya, Natasha, and Lahusen, Thomas, eds., Intimacy and Terror. Soviet Diaries from the 1930s, trans. Flaui, Carol A. (New York, 1995)Google Scholar; and Fitzpatrick, Sheila and Slezkine, Yuri, eds., In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War (Princeton, 2000)Google Scholar.