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Svetlana Alexievich: Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it’s like to live in the new Russia left in its wake.
ISBN: 9780399588822
Author: Svetlana Alexievich
Page: 496
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 2017
Format: Book
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE
Language: English

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Price: 5 350 Ft

Stock: 1-10 copies

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hrough interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres—but also of pride in their country, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here is an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world.

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