{"product_id":"the-whisperers-private-life-in-stalins-russia-9780805074611","title":"The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning author of A Peoples Tragedy and Natashas 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 Stalins dictatorship: the arrests and trials  the enslavement and killing in the gulags. No previous book  however  has explored the regimes effect on peoples personal lives  what one historian called \"the Stalinism that entered into all of us.\" Now  drawing on a huge collection of newly discovered documents  The Whisperers reveals for the first time the inner world of ordinary Soviet citizens as they struggled to survive amidst the mistrust  fear  compromises  and betrayals that pervaded their existence. Moving from the Revolution of 1917 to the death of Stalin and beyond  Orlando Figes re-creates the moral maze in which Russians found themselves  where one wrong turn could destroy a family or  perversely  end up saving it. 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 arrest as a case of mistaken identity; and he casts a humanizing light on informers  demonstrating how  in a repressive system  anyone could easily become a collaborator. A vast panoramic portrait of a society in which everyone spoke in whispers--whether to protect their families and friends  or to inform upon them--The Whisperers is a gripping account of lives lived in impossible times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789594681397,"sku":"ByrdShop_0805074619","price":28.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780805074611.jpg?v=1784693722","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-whisperers-private-life-in-stalins-russia-9780805074611","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}