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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2013  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS - ORLANDO FIGES, THE WHISPERERS: PRIVATE LIFE IN STALIN’S RUSSIA, LONDON, NEW YORK: PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007.

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  Abstract:  The volume The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia is the result of a research which took place between 2003 and 2006. Three teams of researchers from The Memorial Society in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Perm recovered hundreds of family archives like letters, journals, memoires, pictures and artifacts, which were hidden by the survivors of the Stalinist terror in secret drawers and under mattresses in private homes across Russia. Within each family extensive interviews were conducted with the older relatives, who were capable of explaining the context of these private documents and testimonials about private life during the Stalinist period, reflecting the interior world of those families and individuals.  
         
     
         
         
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