New Book on Stalin‘s Children
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Please find below information on a book The Whisperers and a NY Times article.
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Brian Ward
THE WHISPERERS
Private Life in Stalin’s Russia.
By Orlando Figes.
Illustrated. 740 pp. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. $35.
Excerpt from NY Times Article:
For many years, Orlando Figes observes, the memoirs of intellectual dissidents, like Eugenia Ginzburg and Nadezhda Mandelstam, and the work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “were widely greeted as the ‘authentic voice’ of ‘the silenced,’” telling us “what it had ‘been like’ to live through the Stalin Terror as an ordinary citizen.” Their books did indeed reflect the experience of people like themselves, who were “strongly committed to ideals of freedom and individualism.” But they did not represent what happened to millions of other people who were not opponents of the regime and did not engage in any kind of substantial dissent, but were still dispatched to labor camps, to exile in remote settlements or to summary execution.