Revolution on My Mind

Writing a Diary Under Stalin

Jochen Hellbeck

  • Honorable Mention 2008 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)

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

  • Cover: Revolution on My Mind
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Britt Patscher

Jochen Hellbeck is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.