Pre-Owned The Whisperers : Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Paperback) 9780141013510

from labfs39

Many of the books written about life during Stalin's reign are gulag survivor stories. Little has been written about everyday Soviet life during the years 1930-1953. Even less has been written about the minor bureaucrats who were successful during these years. The Whisperers is a well-researched ...

from arubabookwoman

During Stalin's reign of terror, 25 million people were either shot by execution squads, or were gulag prisoners, were kulaks sent to special settlements, or were slave laborers. These 'repressed' constituted about 1/8 of the total population, and the figure does not include those who died of fam...

from marwanbadri

The Whisperers describes the lives of ordinary Russians under the ruthless totalitarian regime of Stalin. Although the extensive details make the book a sad reading, they also show its importance in documenting this part of human history. It is well referenced, and based on true events lived by p...

from KaterinaBead

Probably more frightening to read about than the Holocaust. I keep coming back to people with "spoiled biographies," and how all the terror and interrogation resulted in "information spreading and mutating like a virus" until no person could be sure about the truth. I say the Bolsheviks got the h...

from marwanbadri

The Whisperers describes the lives of ordinary Russians under the ruthless totalitarian regime of Stalin. Although the extensive details make the book a sad reading, they also show its importance in documenting this part of human history. It is well referenced, and based on true events lived by p...