BOOKFORUM — DECEMBER/JANUARY 2008
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia
By Orlando Figes
Metropolitan Books, 740 pages, $35
Early in Nadezhda Mandelstam’s astonishing memoir, Hope Against Hope, she remembers the moment when she registered, for the first time, the full horror of life under Stalin. It was not, as one might assume, when she learned that [...]
