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Whisperers : private life in Stalin's Russia

text Whisperers : private life in Stalin's Russia

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A landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression. We know of the public aspects of Stalin's dictatorship: the arrests and trials, the enslavement and killing in the gulags. No previous book, how... Read more
Contents

Children of 1917 (1917-28) -- The great break (1928-32) -- The pursuit of happiness (1932-6) -- The great fear (1937-8) -- Remnants of terror (1938-41) -- "Wait for me" (1941-5) -- Ordinary Stalinists (1945-53) -- Return (1953-6) -- Memory (1956-2006).

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xxxviii, 739 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Publisher
Metropolitan Books 2007

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 947.084 FIG in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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