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The whisperers : private life in Stalin's Russia / Orlando Figes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Figes, Orlando.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communism.
- Psychological aspects.
- City and town life.
- Soviet Union--Social conditions.
- Soviet Union.
- Social conditions.
- Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.
- History.
- City and town life--Soviet Union.
- Communism--Soviet Union--Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 739 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- The award-winning author of "A Peoples Tragedy" and "Natashas Dance" has written this landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression.
- Contents:
- Children of 1917 (1917-28)
- The great break (1928-32)
- The pursuit of happiness (1932-6)
- The great fear (1937-8)
- Remnants of terror (1938-41)
- "Wait for me" (1941-5)
- Ordinary Stalinists (1945-53)
- Return (1953-6)
- Memory (1956-2006).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780805074611
- 0805074619
- OCLC:
- 145431653
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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