Ebook: The whisperers private life in Stalin's Russia
Author: Figes Orlando
- Tags: City and town life--Soviet Union, Communism--Soviet Union--Psychological aspects, Communisme--URSS, Conditions sociales--URSS, Répression politique--URSS, Société communiste, Vie privée--URSS, Social conditions, City and town life, Communism--Psychological aspects, History, City and town life -- Soviet Union, Communism -- Soviet Union -- Psychological aspects, Soviet Union -- Social conditions, Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953, Communism -- Psychological aspects, Soviet Union, Vie privée -- URSS, Communisme
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
- City: New York;Soviet Union;URSS
- Language: English
- epub
From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression
There have been many accounts of the public aspects of Stalin's dictatorship: the arrests and trials, the enslavement and killing in the gulags. No previous book, however, has explored the regime's effect on people's personal lives, what one historian called "the Stalinism that entered into all of us." Now, drawing on a huge collection of newly discovered documents, The Whisperers reveals for the first time the inner world of ordinary Soviet citizens as they struggled to survive amidst the mistrust, fear, compromises, and betrayals that pervaded their existence.
Moving from the Revolution of 1917 to the death of Stalin and beyond, Orlando Figes re-creates the moral maze in which Russians found themselves, where one wrong turn could destroy a family or,...