The Whisperers: Private Lives in the Stalinist Soviet Union
by H
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This is the first in-depth exploration of the suffocating living conditions and distorted inner lives of ordinary people in the "era of total control". The Stalinist era (1924-1953) was both the beginning and the climax of an era of total control. The transformed Soviets both feared political power and worshiped it. Almost every one of them has become a "whisperer" - either hiding in a corner and whispering to each other, or secretly pandering and becoming a whistleblower to the authorities. Many historical works about the Soviet Union focus on the horrific external phenomena of the gulag, arrests, sentences, imprisonment and even killings, but almost no one pays attention to the private lives of ordinary Soviet people and what they really thought and felt. "The Whisperer" focuses on the living conditions and inner souls of the most extensive ordinary people. It is the first oral history work to deeply explore personal and family life during the Stalin period.
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