The Whisperers
  • Published: 28 July 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141808871
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 784

The Whisperers

Private Life in Stalin's Russia

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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.
  • Published: 28 July 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141808871
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 784
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Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. Born in London in 1959, he was previously a Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. A People’s Tragedy received the Wolfson Prize, the NCR Book Award, the W.H. Smith Literary Award, the Longman/History Today Book Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is the author of many other books on Russian history including Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia, The Whisperers: Private life in Stalin’s Russia, Crimea: the Last Crusade and Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag.

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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991
Just Send Me Word
Crimea
Natasha's Dance
A People's Tragedy
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