The Whisperers Private Life in Stalin's Russia

A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 "A tremendous achievement."- The Sunday Times (London) 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 ).

Orlando Figes is the author of Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia and A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924, which received the Wolfson Prize, the NCR Book Award, the W. H. Smith Literary Award, the Longman/History Today Book Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London.

List of Illustrations	p. viii
Note on Proper Names	p. xiii
Maps	p. xiv
Family Trees	p. xxi
Introduction	p. xxvii
Children of 1917 (1917-28)	p. 1
The Great Break (1928-32)	p. 76
The Pursuit of Happiness (1932-6)	p. 148
The Great Fear (1937-8)	p. 227
Remnants of Terror (1938-41)	p. 316
'Wait For Me' (1941-5)	p. 379
Ordinary Stalinists (1945-53)	p. 455
Return (1953-6)	p. 535
Memory (1956-2006)	p. 597
Afterword and Acknowledgements	p. 657
Permissions	p. 666
Notes	p. 667
Sources	p. 703
Index	p. 713
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