Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

Голоса утопии #5

Svetlana Alexievich with Bela Shayevich

520 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative reflective slow-paced
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‘Communism had an insane plan: to refashion the “old” breed of man, ancient Adam. And it accomplished this...’ writes Svetlana Alexievich. ‘This was perhaps communism’s only achievement. Seventy plus years in the Marxist-Leninist laboratory gave r...

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