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The whisperers : private life in Stalin's Russia

"The Whisperers is a triumphant act of recovery. In this powerful work of history, Orlando Figes chronicles the private history of family life during the violent and repressive reign of Josef Stalin. Drawing on a vast collection of interviews and archives, The Whisperers re-creates the anguish of family members turned against one another--of the paranoia, alienation, and treachery that poisoned private life in Russia for generations. A panoramic portrait of a society in which everyone spoke in whispers, The Whisperers is "rigorously compassionate. ... A humbling monument to the evil and endurance of Russia's Soviet past and, implicitly, a guide to its present" (The Economist)."--The back cover.

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  • "Whisperers : private life in Stalin's Russia"@tr
  • "Soukromý život ve Stalinově Rusku"
  • "Whisperers"
  • "Whisperers"@it
  • "斯大林时代苏联的私人生活"
  • "Sidalin shi dai Sulian de si ren sheng huo"

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  • ""The Whisperers is a triumphant act of recovery. In this powerful work of history, Orlando Figes chronicles the private history of family life during the violent and repressive reign of Josef Stalin. Drawing on a vast collection of interviews and archives, The Whisperers re-creates the anguish of family members turned against one another--of the paranoia, alienation, and treachery that poisoned private life in Russia for generations. A panoramic portrait of a society in which everyone spoke in whispers, The Whisperers is "rigorously compassionate. ... A humbling monument to the evil and endurance of Russia's Soviet past and, implicitly, a guide to its present" (The Economist)."--The back cover."@en
  • "L'historien évoque les conditions de la vie privée, au quotidien, en URSS, sous Staline. Pour cela, il mêle la grande histoire et des témoignages, des récits de vie de gens ordinaires. Constantin Simonov (1915-1979) est l'incarnation, selon O. Figes, de tous les conflits et dilemmes moraux de sa génération."
  • "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.--From publisher description."
  • ""The Whisperers is a triumphant act of recovery. In this powerful work of history, Orlando Figes chronicles the private history of family life during the violent and repressive reign of Josef Stalin. Drawing on a vast collection of interviews and archives, The Whisperers re-creates the anguish of family members turned against one another--of the paranoia, alienation, and treachery that poisoned private life in Russia for generations. A panoramic portrait of a society in which everyone spoke in whispers, The Whisperers is "rigorously compassionate. . . . A humbling monument to the evil and endurance of Russia's Soviet past and, implicitly, a guide to its present" (The Economist)."--From the back cover."@en

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  • "History"@tr
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"@pl
  • "Monographs"
  • "Monografie"
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  • "המלחשים ־ חיים פרטיים ברוסיה בימי סטלין"
  • "The whisperers : private life in Stalin's Russia"
  • "The whisperers : private life in Stalin's Russia"@en
  • "The Whisperers : private life in Stalin's Russia"
  • "Er yu zhe : Sidalin shi dai Sulian de si ren sheng huo"
  • "The whisperers"
  • "De som viskade : tystnad och terror i Stalins Sovjet"
  • "Szepty : życie w stalinowskiej Rosji"
  • "Szepty : życie w stalinowskiej Rosji"@pl
  • "Šepetalci : zasebno življenje v Stalinovi Rusiji"@sl
  • "Sospetto e silenzio : vite private nella Russia di Stalin"
  • "Sospetto e silenzio : vite private nella Russia di Stalin"@it
  • "ha-Melaḥashim"
  • "Šeptem : soukromý život ve Stalinově Rusku"
  • "Fluisteraars : leven onder Stalin"
  • "Les chuchoteurs : vivre et survivre sous Staline"
  • "ha-Melaḥashim : Ḥayim praṭiyim be-Rusia be-yeme Sṭalin"
  • "Die Flüsterer : Leben in Stalins Russland"
  • "Les chuchoteurs vivre et survivre sous Staline"
  • "Karanlıkta fısıldaşanlar : Stalin Rusya'sında özel yaşam"@tr
  • "Die Flüsterer: Leben in Stalins Russland"
  • "המלחשים : חיים פרטיים ברוסיה בימי סטלין"
  • "The whisperers private life in Stalin's Russia"
  • "耳语者 : 斯大林时代苏联的私人生活"

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