Fellow Orlando Figes: The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia



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Author: Fellow Orlando Figes
Number of Pages: 739 pages
Published Date: 25 Nov 2008
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780312428037
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"A "New York Times "Notable Book of 2007" "" """A tremendous achievement."--"The Sunday Times "(London)"The Whisperers" is a triumphant act of recovery. In this powerful work of history, Orlando Figes chronicles the private history of family life during the violent and repressive reign of Josef Stalin. Drawing on a vast collection of interviews and archives, "The Whisperers" re-creates the anguish of family members turned against one another--of the paranoia, alienation, and treachery that poisoned private life in Russia for generations. A panoramic portrait of a society in which everyone spoke in whispers, "The Whisperers" is "rigorously compassionate. . . . A humbling monument to the evil and endurance of Russia's Soviet past and, implicitly, a guide to its present" ("The Economist").