A review by peej_
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexiévich

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

Bought this in an airport on the way to Prague in 2016, couldn't get into it at the time. Came back to it a few years later and had my worldview changed forever. By the time I got done, my entire concept of what the USSR was, what Russia is, and what the system as a whole did for better and for worse was changed. If you want to understand why Russia is the way it is, read this.