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Between the lines: historians put Stalin-era diaries online
10 years agoA picture taken on February 27, 2017 shows historian Mikhail Melnichenko, 33, displaying pages from a Soviet-era diary during an AFP interview in Moscow. An enthusiastic group of young Russian historians and volunteers publishes hundreds of never-before-seen Stalin-era diaries on a website called Prozhito, or Lived Through. The site was launched in 2015 and can be searched using the day, author or a keyword. It already includes more than 600 never-published journals. Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP
While Alexander Yakovlev's death was over half a century before her birth, Panova, 25, has gained a tiny window into his thoughts and life thanks to an aged diary that her family preserved.