The first -person revolution. The diaries of the Stalin era. 3rd edition. Hellbeck J.

The view of the “Soviet man” presented in the book allows you to see for this seemingly empty ideological formula a lot of specific discursive practices and biographical strategies, with which Soviet people tried to endow their lives by meaning, corresponding to the historical imperatives of the Stalinist era. The immediate subject of the study is the diary genre that allowed the ideological criteria for time into a factor in the psychological construction of their own personality. Heroes of the book - peasants who fled to the city and representatives of the city intelligentsia who worked as rural teachers, engineers and writers - used a diary as a method of self -observation and self -education, turning existing cultural patterns into a horizon of internal formation, making history part of their Self.