Does that boy like me? Am I pretty? Will my father be arrested? These were the everyday concerns of thirteen-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Nina Lugovskaya, who began to write a diary in 1932. Her indignant outbursts against Stalin`s brutal Terror appear alongside more typical adolescent worries about friends, boys and homework. For five years Nina scribbled down her most intimate thoughts. Then in 1937 Stalin`s secret police ransacked Nina`s home and discovered her diary. Nina`s criticism of the regime provided sufficient evidence for the charge of treason, and she, her mother and two sisters were sentenced to five years` hard labour in the Gulag, followed by seven years` exile. Recently Nina`s diary was discovered in the KGB archives. Like Anne Frank`s diary, it poignantly reveals life at a time of political upheaval, betrayal and repression through the eyes of an innocent.