The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

Orlando Figes

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 July 2008
Pages
784
ISBN
9780141013510

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia

Orlando Figes

A gripping and emotional account of lives lived in impossible times

Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it- a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.

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