Comments on: Book Review: The Whisperers by Orlando Figes

By: Rajko Igic

Rajko Igic — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:31:46 +0000

Mr. Orlando Figes,

In the book “Natasha Dance” I could not find even one word on Michail Sholokhov. He is a Nobel Laureate (1965). Why, do you neglect him?

Sincerely Yours,

Rajko Igic,
Chicago, IL

By: Marksena, the Little Red Princess « Far Outliers

Marksena, the Little Red Princess « Far Outliers — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:04:46 +0000

[...] Private Lives in Stalin’s Russia, by Orlando Figes (Metropolitan, 2007), pp. 11-13 (reviewed here and here): Anna Karpitskaia and her husband Pyotr Nizovtsev were high-ranking Party activists in [...]

By: Peter King

Peter King — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:01:07 +0000

Hi,
just wanted to say how horrified I have found The Whisperers to be.
Edgar allen Poe was an amateur compared to Stalin. The Sunday Express reviewer wrote
“if you never read another book on Russia you must read this one”.
I’ve only read 200 pages and feel i must read the rest of it,
Peter