by Orlando Figes · Allen Lane · tapa dura · ISBN 9780713997026
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«The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia» is the historical essay by Orlando Figes, published by Allen Lane in hardcover (740 pages, in English).
Orlando Figes reconstructs the private life of Soviet citizens under Stalinism using letters, memoirs and testimonies. He shows how ordinary people faced impossible decisions to survive: protecting their families, collaborating with the regime or denouncing neighbors, in a society where everything was spoken in whispers.
First edition published on October 4, 2007. The work was nominated in 2008 for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
Recommended for readers interested in the social and political history of the Soviet Union and in everyday life under authoritarian regimes.
Orlando Guy Figes is a British and German historian and writer. He was a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was made Emeritus Professor on his retirement in 2022.
