Russian Diary -- Film Description:
"This documentary is a last glimpse of the Soviet Union before the transition to Glasnost. The diary of the filmmaker is used as a narrative device in recalling encounters with a wedding couple, an actress, a class of nine-year-old school children, a 'refusnik,' and women who survived the siege of Leningrad. Part of the Speaking Our Peace series."
-- National Film Board of Canada

Source:
National Film Board of Canada. "NFB -- Russian Diary" National Film Board of Canada. http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=18170.