The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia - Softcover

Figes, Orlando

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312428030 ISBN 13: 9780312428037

Verlag: PICADOR, 2008

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Críticas:

"Its importance cannot be overestimated. . . . This book should be made compulsory reading in Russia today." --The Times (London)

"Extraordinary . . . Victims do not always make good witnesses. But thanks to Figes, these survivors overcame their silence and have lifted their voices above a whisper." --The New York Times Book Review

"A profound service . . . Figes redeems the gloom by demonstrating compassion for flawed human beings and revealing compelling examples of moral courage and kindness." --The Christian Science Monitor

"An extraordinary work of synthesis and insight . . . an awfully good read . . . Figes is both a prodigious researcher and a gifted writer." --St. Petersburg Times

"Lucid, thorough, and essential to understanding Stalinist society . . . an exemplary study in mentalits." --Kirkus Reviews

"Extraordinary." --The New Yorker

Reseña del editor:

The award-winning author of A People's Tragedy furnishes an incisive portrait of everyday Russian life during the repression of the Stalin years, analyzing the regime's effect on people's personal lives as they struggled to survive in the middle of the fear, mistrust, betrayal, and compromise of the world in which they lived. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: PICADOR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0312428030
• ISBN 13: 9780312428037
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 739