The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- Author:Orlando Figes
- Publisher:Picador
- Category:Book
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- Languages:English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
- Media:Paperback
- Number Of Items:1
- Edition:First Edition
- Pages:784
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- Dimensions (in):9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4
- Publication Date:November 25, 2008
- ISBN:0312428030
- EAN:9780312428037
- ASIN:0312428030
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DIVDIVPBIA /I/BBNew York Times /BBINotable Book of 2007BRBR/I/BB"A tremendous achievement."--/BBIThe Sunday Times /I/BB(London)/B/PPIThe Whisperers/I 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, IThe Whisperers/I 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, IThe Whisperers/I is "rigorously compassionate. . . . A humbling monument to the evil and endurance of Russia's Soviet past and, implicitly, a guide to its present" (IThe Economist/I).BR/P/DIV/DIV
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