![]() Capping off nearly three decades of collection the oral history of the Soviet peoples from WWII, the late 20th century Soviet-Afghan War, and the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster, Alexievich captures the social and psychological landscape of the former Eastern Bloc from the 1990's forward as "Soviet Man" ("Homo Sovieticus" per Soviet writer and sociologist Aleksandr Zinovyev) labors to discover what fits (and what doesn't) in the 21st century. In Secondhand Time, 2015 Nobel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Read and reviewing Belarussian journalist and winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature Svetlana Alexievich's 2016 'Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets'. The book contains few comments from the author herself. ![]() ![]() An oral history of the Soviet Union and its end, it shares the feelings and views of its people as the country transitioned to capitalism. Special Ukraine Episode of LouisvilleReads. Alexievich s distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets is a 2013 book by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. ![]()
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