The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

by Orlando Figes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805074619
• ISBN13: 9780805074611
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Length: 739 Pages
• Weight: 2.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"