Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations -
Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under
Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently,
its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless.
The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found
themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family
or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in
whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or
friends - or to inform on them.

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