The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia is a historical study by Orlando Figes that explores how ordinary Soviet citizens experienced and coped with fear, repression, and intimacy under Stalin’s totalitarian regime.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia canonical | 3 |
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia Context triple: [Orlando Figes, notableWork, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia]
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A Russian Diary
A Russian Diary is a posthumously published collection of journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s firsthand accounts and critical observations of political and social life in Russia under Vladimir Putin.
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B.
The Faraway Music: A Memoir of My Father, Joseph Stalin
The Faraway Music: A Memoir of My Father, Joseph Stalin is a autobiographical work by Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, in which she recounts her personal memories of her father and life inside the Soviet leader’s family.
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C.
Stalin: The Man and His Era
Stalin: The Man and His Era is a comprehensive biographical study of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, examining his life, rule, and impact on 20th-century history.
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D.
The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s landmark three-volume work that exposes and analyzes the Soviet Union’s forced labor camp system through historical research, personal testimony, and moral reflection.
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E.
Moscow Journal
Moscow Journal was a late 18th-century Russian literary and cultural periodical associated with writer and historian Nikolai Karamzin, known for promoting sentimentalism and European-influenced literary trends in Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia Target entity description: The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia is a historical study by Orlando Figes that explores how ordinary Soviet citizens experienced and coped with fear, repression, and intimacy under Stalin’s totalitarian regime.
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A.
A Russian Diary
A Russian Diary is a posthumously published collection of journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s firsthand accounts and critical observations of political and social life in Russia under Vladimir Putin.
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B.
The Faraway Music: A Memoir of My Father, Joseph Stalin
The Faraway Music: A Memoir of My Father, Joseph Stalin is a autobiographical work by Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, in which she recounts her personal memories of her father and life inside the Soviet leader’s family.
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C.
Stalin: The Man and His Era
Stalin: The Man and His Era is a comprehensive biographical study of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, examining his life, rule, and impact on 20th-century history.
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D.
The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s landmark three-volume work that exposes and analyzes the Soviet Union’s forced labor camp system through historical research, personal testimony, and moral reflection.
-
E.
Moscow Journal
Moscow Journal was a late 18th-century Russian literary and cultural periodical associated with writer and historian Nikolai Karamzin, known for promoting sentimentalism and European-influenced literary trends in Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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historical study ⓘ |
| author | Orlando Figes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| examines |
adaptation strategies of citizens
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impact of repression on private relationships ⓘ informing and denunciation ⓘ mechanisms of fear in Stalin’s USSR ⓘ memory of Stalinist repression ⓘ surveillance in Soviet society ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
everyday life under totalitarianism
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family life in the Soviet Union ⓘ ordinary Soviet citizens ⓘ |
| genre |
history
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political history ⓘ social history ⓘ |
| hasCentralTheme |
impact of terror on family and intimacy
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survival under totalitarian rule ⓘ tension between public conformity and private beliefs ⓘ |
| historicalEventCovered |
Great Terror
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collectivization in the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| historicalFigureCovered | Joseph Stalin ⓘ |
| historicalSetting | Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Soviet Union
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Stalinism ⓘ
linked to:
Stalin era
fear ⓘ intimacy ⓘ private life ⓘ state repression ⓘ |
| notableFor |
detailed portrayal of private life under Stalin
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use of large-scale oral history project ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| publisher | Metropolitan Books ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
A People’s Tragedy
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Natasha’s Dance ⓘ |
| setIn | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
1920s
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1930s ⓘ 1940s ⓘ Stalin era ⓘ |
| usesSourceType |
archival documents
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diaries ⓘ oral history interviews ⓘ personal letters ⓘ |
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Subject: The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia Description of subject: The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia is a historical study by Orlando Figes that explores how ordinary Soviet citizens experienced and coped with fear, repression, and intimacy under Stalin’s totalitarian regime.
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subject linked to:
Figes
A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891–1924
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