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Nina Kosterina began her diary in 1936, when she was fifteen years old. She wrote the last entry in 1941, on the eve of her departure for the front to fight against the invading Germans, where she was killed. Apart from being an absorbing and remarkably contemporary story of the growing up of a vital rebellious adolescent, this moving document is also a revealing and candid record of the life of young people in Soviet Russia during the great Stalinist purges and trials, and the early days of World War II. Though many of Nina Kosterina's preoccupations were personal, the larger political events of the time shadowed her life and filled her diary increasingly - as the reign of terror spread, enveloping first the parents of her friends and then her own father and family. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Nina's diary covers 1936 to 1941, age fifteen to twenty, but it's not really that long because she didn't write entries very often and sometimes weeks or months separate one entry from another. You learn about her relationships with girlfriends and with boys, her activity in Communist organizations, her relationship with her family, and her studies. She was a very good student who got a scholarship to a university in Moscow to study geology.
It might be worth comparing this book to Nina Lugovskaya's Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl, which was written during the same period. The girls have a lot in common. They had the same first name, they were about the same age, both lived with their mother and sisters, both had their fathers accused of subversive activity and arrested, both lived in Moscow, and both apparently suffered from depression. Lugovskaya was very critical of Stalin's government, however, whereas Kosterina was a loyal Communist and a leader in the local Communist youth group.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in finding out about ordinary life in Stalin's Russia during the prewar years. ( )