On Roots and Rhizomes : The Private and the Public in the Soviet 1930s

Résumé

The present article attempts to investigate how the categories of public and private were recontextualized during the social and political upheaval of the Soviet 1930s in a series of diaries, written by ordinary people, men and women, workers, peasants, students, a housewife and activist, members of the intelligentsia, and even a first secretary of the Soviet Writers’ Union.