Abstract
Researchers often question or contradict the reflection of author’s subjectivity in ego-documents produced as a part of the institutional workflow and stored in state archives. It is generally believed that the documents of an official nature are but a public mask that hides the subject. Based on a corpus of pedagogical diaries (stored in RGASPI) that were used as tool of control and professional growth of camp leaders in Soviet pioneer camps “Artek” and “Orlionok”, this article suggests an approach to disclose the individuality of the writer in such biased ego-documents. The author attempts to reconstruct the system of recommendations and requirements for keeping diaries, interpreting comments and assessments of the daily camp leader’s analysis by the camp methodologists, and then reveals to what extent diarists obeyed the instructions or bypassed and used them for critical purposes, thus violating the subordination and gaining the agency.
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