Ekaterina Zadirko, a Slavonic Studies researcher at Trinity College, Cambridge, studied 25 diaries written between 1930 and 1941. Most of the documents had never been studied before and preserved the ...

Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, pressure to succeed and trying to fit in; but also experience of famine, exile ...