The Whisperers

This book is about ordinary Soviet life during Stalin's reign. It seemed pretty interesting and at the beginning it was, but it is 700+ pages of the same basic thing. The only difference is the name's of the places and people. It could have been half the pages and would have been much better. One thing that I did learn from the book is that the Nazis didn't believe in controlling your private life as long as you were Aryan and not anti-Nazis while the Soviets actively tried to control people's private lives (ie by forcing many families to live in the same apartment, etc.)