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).

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-26-2009; Required Reading; Stunning, meticulous, profoundly disturbing, and an invaluable resource to assure mankind is reminded of its evil capacities; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-21-2009; Extraordinary and painful hisory; On college campuses across the United States, there are thousands of professors who consider themselves Marxists, socialists or some derivation thereof. Ask them about the misery their professed political beliefs caused in the 20th...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-19-2009; Masterpiece..; This incredible book completely absorbed me and is perhaps Figes' masterpiece. He handles the subject matter beautifully, the photographs adding to the sense of historical depth throughout as, family by family, Figes constructs a grand...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-04-2009; It cannot get more riveting that this; if you have read it all about Stalin times. If you don't understand how an entire population became schizophrenic this is a sure bet. Learning how to whisper your deepest thoughts became a survival skill in Stalin's USSR. There is no...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-26-2009; Required Reading; Stunning, meticulous, profoundly disturbing, and an invaluable resource to assure mankind is reminded of its evil capacities; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-04-2008; GOOD JOURNALISM, BAD HISTORY; This book cannot be classified as history.To write something based mostly on a myriad of interviews does not qualify it under the category of scientific research.It distorts and minimizes the historical framework of those horrible...; read full review | report as inappropriate