Fluisteraars by Orlando Figes
Private Life in Stalin's Russia
Drawing on diaries, letters, interviews and archives, the book reconstructs how Stalinist terror penetrated private life in the Soviet Union, turning homes into spaces of fear, secrecy and enforced silence; it shows how arrests, denunciations and the constant threat of exile reshaped family relationships, gender roles and intimate behavior, producing widespread mistrust, concealment and moral compromises, while also revealing small acts of courage, solidarity and everyday adaptation that people used to survive and preserve memory under an atmosphere of surveillance and suspicion.
- Published
- 2007
- Nationality
- British
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- Original Language
- English
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- Fluisteraars
- The Whisperers
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