Bolotninsky Diary in the Light of Anti-Album Campaigns of the Late 1920s and Early 1940s
https://doi.org/10.20913/2618-7515-2025-3-18-27
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to show the evolution of handwritten amateur publications in the 1920s – 1940s and to give an example of the ego document that emerged as a result of it. The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that it lies in the field of the history of everyday life and microhistory. Amateur publications, especially those created by children, are usually overshadowed by official print editions and have a low level of preservation, so the introduction of each of these sources for scientific use is certainly significant. In this case, such a publication is a collective diary kept by schoolchildren in Bolotnoye, Novosibirsk region, in 1944–1945. The study shows that despite the harsh pressure of the state on diaries and albums, as well as attempts to replace the content of old forms with new ones more appropriate to Soviet reality, the children’s diary escapes the framework imposed on it and shows the lives of children in its real form.
About the Authors
A. S. Metelkov
State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Competing Interests:
Russian Federation
Metelkov Anton Sergeevich, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head of the Sector of Samizdat and Non-Traditional Printing, Researcher of the Laboratory Book Studie
15 Voskhod St., Novosibirsk, 630102
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none
V. E. Yakovleva
State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Competing Interests:
Russian Federation
Yakovleva Valeriya Evgen’evna, Junior Researcher of the Laboratory Book Studies
15 Voskhod St., Novosibirsk, 630102
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none
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Metelkov A.S., Yakovleva V.E. Bolotninsky Diary in the Light of Anti-Album Campaigns of the Late 1920s and Early 1940s. Proceedings of SPSTL SB RAS. 2025;(3):18-27. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.20913/2618-7515-2025-3-18-27
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