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More than six years in the making, Intimacy and Terror: Soviet
Diaries of the 1930s is the result of a unique international
collaborative investigation by Russian, French, and Swiss scholars
into hundreds of private, unpublished diaries found in remote
libraries, archives, and family holdings. Intimacy and Terror
reveals for the first time the private lives of a broad cross
section of Russians during the harshest years of Stalin's purge -
not just the now-familiar stories of those who were deported or
killed. The ten diaries reveal the day-to-day thoughts of ordinary
citizens, some far removed from political turmoil, some closely
enmeshed. Together they paint an extraordinarily broad portrait of
Russian life in the thirties; their insights into the daily life of
that time have astonished even the Russian historians who read the
original manuscripts. The diarists range from the ambitious
literary bureaucrat who moves forward by denouncing his colleagues
to the young unlettered careerist learning the ways of Soviet
success; from the wife of a government bureaucrat, who writes in a
pure Stalinist prose, to the candid thoughts and uncertainties of a
dissident; from a provincial sailor on a distant Arctic vessel to
Moscow intellectuals who meet and recount their conversations with
Anna Akhmatova. Some of the diarists are wholly oblivious to the
terrors of Stalin's purges; others see the failures of the regime
as clearly as those writing today. To set the diaries in context,
the book begins with a "Chronicle of the Year 1937" - an
extraordinary montage comprised of excerpts from the daily
newspaper Izvestiya juxtaposed with corresponding entries from a
collective farmer's diary - and alsoincludes a chronology of major
events in the Soviet Union during the latter half of the decade.
The diaries bring us the true-life counterparts of characters we
remember from classic Russian literature. Intimacy and Terror
provides an unprecedented, intimate view of daily life in Russia at
the height of Stalinism.
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