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The Whisperers Private Life In Stalins Russia 1st Orlando Figes

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Publisher: Penguin Group

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 4.48 MB

Pages: 808

Author: Orlando Figes

ISBN: 9780141808871, 9780805074611, 014180887X, 0805074619

Language: English

Year: 2007

Edition: 1st

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The Whisperers Private Life In Stalins Russia 1st Orlando Figes by Orlando Figes 9780141808871, 9780805074611, 014180887X, 0805074619 instant download after payment.

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 perversely, end up saving it. He brings us inside cramped communal apartments, where minor squabbles could lead to fatal denunciations; he examines the Communist faithful, who often rationalized even their own arrest as a case of mistaken identity; and he casts a humanizing light on informers, demonstrating how, in a repressive system, anyone could easily become a collaborator.