The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

* Thousands of such memoirs may be found in the archives of the Memorial Society, which was established in towns across the Soviet Union during the late 1980s to commemorate the victims of repression and record their memories. There are also rich collections of unpublished memoirs from this period in the Archive of the Moscow Historical-Literary Society (‘Vozvrashchenie’), established in 1989; and in the Andrei Sakharov Public Centre and Museum, opened in Moscow in 1996.