THE WHISPERERS: PRIVATE LIFE IN STALIN’S RUSSIA

Book ID/图书代码： 11701207B13086

English Summary/英文概要： From the award-winning author of A People’s Tragedy and Natasha’s Dance, a landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression
There have been many accounts of the public aspects of Stalin’s dictatorship: the arrests and trials, the enslavement and killing in the gulags. No previous book, however, has explored the regime’s effect on people’s personal lives, what one historian called “the Stalinism that entered into all of us.” Now, drawing on a huge collection of newly discovered documents, The Whisperers reveals for the first time the inner world of ordinary Soviet citizens as they struggled to survive amidst the mistrust, fear, compromises, and betrayals that pervaded their existence.
Moving from the Revolution of 1917 to the death of Stalin and beyond, Orlando Figes re-creates the moral maze in which Russians found themselves, where one wrong turn could destroy a family or, perversely, end up saving it. He brings us inside cramped communal apartments, where minor squabbles could lead to fatal denunciations; he examines the Communist faithful, who often rationalized even their own arrest as a case of mistaken identity; and he casts a humanizing light on informers, demonstrating how, in a repressive system, anyone could easily become a collaborator.
A vast panoramic portrait of a society in which everyone spoke in whispers—whether to protect their families and friends, or to inform upon them—The Whisperers is a gripping account of lives lived in impossible times.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《人类悲剧A People’s Tragedy》和《娜塔莎之舞Natasha’s Dance》的获奖作者奥兰多•菲戈的一部标志性的作品，描述了在苏维埃压制下的黑暗年代，俄国人的私生活。关于斯大林的独裁有很多描写：监禁和审讯，古格拉集中营的奴役与杀戮。至今尚未有一本书，专门探究政体对于人们生活的影响，历史学家称之为“斯大林主义浸透了我们每个人”。现在，根据大量新发现的文献资料，《疯狂世家The Whisperers》首次展现了普通苏维埃市民的内在生活，以及他们努力在疑惑，恐惧，妥协，背叛中求得生存。
从1917年的革命到斯大林的死亡，奥兰多•菲戈重新塑造了一个俄国人的道德迷宫，他把我们带进一间狭隘的公有公寓，一些无关的争执会导致致命的谴责，他探究了共产主义的忠诚，赋予了告密者人性化的光芒，演示了在压制的体制下，任何人都可能变成合作者。
对于一个人人说话都要低声耳语社会的全景描绘------无论是为了保护家人和朋友，或是传递给他们信息------本书是一部关于在一段艰难时期人们生活的扣人心弦的故事。(zh)

Awards/获奖情况：THE WHISPERERS: UK: Penguin (pub October 2007); US: Holt; Germany: Berlin; Holland: Nieuw Amsterdam; Italy: Mondadori; Poland: Magnum; Spain: Edhasa.
2008 Orange Prize longlist.

’Wonderful ... an amazing panoramic view ... I’ve rarely read anything like it’ Claire Tomalin ’Awesome ... one of the most unforgettable books I have ever read. I defy anyone to read it without weeping at its human suffering, cruelty and courage ... a celebration of family love in an epoch of hellish cruelty ... now in this book these righteous heroes have their rightful memorial’ - Simon Sebag Montefiore, Mail on Sunday ’This is a heart-rending book ... its importance cannot be overestimated ... This book should be made compulsory reading in Russia today’ - Antony Beevor, author of, Stalingrad ’A masterful account of lost and stolen lives’---Sunday Times

’[A] truly impressive history ... Figes follows the private lives of an entire generation as they succumb to a cramped, claustrophobic world of public surveillance and constant fear ... in an era of excessive communication it is chastening to read of a time when careless talk cost lives.’---Ian Pindar, Guardian

’The strength of The Whisperers is the range of the individual testimonies. The family sagas in this vast canvas are of scarcely believable tenacity and endurance. No novelist would dare invent such feats and such coincidences ... Terror is vivid on page after page’---Alexander Cockburn, Times

’Figes’s descriptions of the children of political prisoners are extraordinarily moving’---Anne Applebaum, Spectator
“太精彩了…令人惊异的视角…我从未读过像这样的作品。”------克莱尔•托玛琳
“十分令人难忘。那些读完后没有为人类的痛楚，残酷和勇气而流泪的人应当受到谴责…对于在地狱般残酷环境中家族的爱的颂扬…如今这些英雄拥有了他们合法的追忆。”------《周日邮报》
“这是一本触动人心的作品，它的价值是无法估量的…这本书在当今的俄罗斯应当被列为必读的书目。”------《泰晤士报》
“令人永生难忘的历史真相…菲戈描述了在恐怖狭隘社会下的整整一代人…那些漫不经心谈论那些逝去的生命的人应当被强制读这本书。”------《英国卫报》
“这本书几乎可以被列入证言的范围，整个家族拥有难以置信的韧性和耐力。几乎没有哪个作家可以挑战这个壮举…恐惧被渗透在小说的每一页…”------《时代周刊》
“菲戈对于政治犯子女的描述格外的动人。”------《观察家杂志》

About the Author/作者介绍： Orlando Figes is the author of Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia and A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924, which received the Wolfson Prize for History and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, among other publications, Figes is a professor of history at Birbeck College, University of London.
奥兰多•菲戈（Orlando Figes），《娜塔莎之舞：关于俄国的一段文化史Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia》和《人类悲剧：1891-1924年的俄国革命A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924,》的作者。获得了沃尔夫森历史学奖，以及洛杉矶时报图书奖。是《纽约时报》和《纽约图书评论》的供稿者。相对于其他出版物，菲戈是一位历史学教授。

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