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Article Excerpt
THE WHISPERERS: Private Life In Stalin's Russia
by Orlando Figes
(London: Penguin)
Paperback: 780 pages
Rec. price: AUD$29.95
There are many books about different aspects of the Stalin era (1928-53) in the USSR. They include general histories, biographies and studies of specific phenomena such as the Five-Year Plans, the Gulag system, the Great Terror, the Great Patriotic War and the origins of the Cold War.
These are big themes, but there have also been attempts to present life at the grass-roots level, such as Sheila Patrick's Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, which aimed at describing "extraordinary everydayness", including relationships and family life.
Orlando Figes (whom some National Observer readers might have heard reading the poems of Anna Akhmatova in St Paul's Anglican Cathedral during the recent Melbourne Writers' Festival) goes a step further, and considerably deeper. Using primary sources such as diaries, letters and interviews, he brings to light the hidden, unofficial and,...
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