Jochen Hellbeck’s Revolution on My Mind, Writing a Diary under Stalin

 
Composition of [the Soviet New] Man
by Feather Crawford Freed
 
            Jochen Hellbeck’s book, Revolution on My Mind, Writing a Diary under Stalin, is poignant testimony to the quest for self-transformation and authenticity undertaken by many citizens of the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s.  Hellbeck argues that the diaries he discovered in the People’s Archive [...]