Question

“The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia: ” What is most closely a central idea of the excerpt?

a) Sympathy for the peasantry is viewed as disobedience among the ranks of the Communists.

b) Lev Kopelev reveals his personal thoughts about the Komsomol brigade decades after the event.

c) The collectivizers justify the persecution of the kulaks as necessary in the pursuit of political change.

d) Klavdiia Rublyova takes care of her siblings when her father is imprisoned in a labor camp.

Answer 1

Answer: C. The collectivizers justify the persecution of the kulaks as necessary in the pursuit of political change.

Step-by-step explanation:

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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia was written by Orlando Figes and explains the history of the Soviets private life during Stalinism. At the beginning of the book, the background of the revolution in Russia was explained while the book ended with Stalin's death.

The central idea of the excerpt is that the collectivizers justify the persecution of the kulaks as necessary in the pursuit of political change.