The whisperers : private life in Stalin's Russia

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Label

The whisperers : private life in Stalin's Russia

Title remainder

private life in Stalin's Russia

Statement of responsibility

Orlando Figes

Creator

• Figes, Orlando

Subject

• City and town life -- Soviet Union
• Communism -- Soviet Union -- Psychological aspects
• Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
• Soviet Union -- Social conditions

Language

eng

Summary

"A landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression. We know 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. Now, drawing on a huge collection of newly discovered documents, this book reveals the inner world of ordinary Soviet citizens amidst the mistrust, fear, compromises, and betrayals that pervaded their existence. Cultural historian Figes re-creates the moral maze in which Russians found themselves, where one wrong turn could destroy a family. 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 arrests; and he casts a humanizing light on informers, demonstrating how, in a repressive system, anyone could easily become a collaborator."-- Publisher description

Biography type

contains biographical information

Dewey number

306.850947/0904

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HN523

LC item number

.F54 2007

Literary form

non fiction