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Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-
Subjects
Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
Oral history -- Russia (Federation)
Oral history -- Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-
Russia (Federation) -- Biography.
Soviet Union -- Biography.
Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
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Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-
Post-communism -- Russia (Federation)
Oral history -- Russia (Federation)
Oral history -- Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-
Russia (Federation) -- Biography.
Soviet Union -- Biography.
Soviet Union -- Social conditions.
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Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets : an
oral
history
/ Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Bela Shayevich.
by
Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-
Random House, [2016]
Call #:
947.086 A366s
Subjects
Post-communism
--
Russia (Federation)
Oral
history
--
Russia (Federation)
Oral
history
--
Soviet
Union
.
Russia (Federation)
--
Social conditions
--
1991-
Russia (Federation)
--
Biography.
Soviet
Union
--
Biography.
Soviet
Union
--
Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780399588808 (hc.)
Uniform title:
Vrem︠i︡a sekond khėnd. English
Alternate title:
Second hand time : the last of the Soviets : an
oral
history
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Description:
xiv, 470 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Subtitle from cover.
"Originally published in Russian as Время секонд хэн by Vremya Publishing House, Moscow, in 2013"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Chronology : Russia after Stalin
--
Remarks from an accomplice
--
The consolation of apocalypse : snatches of street noise and kitchen conversations (1991-2001)
--
Ten stories in a Red interior. On the beauty of dictatorship and the mystery of butterflies in cement ; On brothers and sisters, victims and executioners ... and the electorate ; On cries and whispers ... and exhilaration ; On the lonely Red marshal and three days of forgotten revolution ; On the mercy of memories and the lust for meaning ; On a different Bible and a different kind of believer ; On the cruelty of the flames and salvation from above ; On the sweetness of suffering and the trick of the Russian soul ; On a time when anyone who kills believes that they are serving God ; On the little Red flag and the smile of the axe
--
The charms of emptiness : snatches of street noise and kitchen conversations (2002-2012)
--
Ten stories in the absence of an interior. On Romeo and Juliet ... except their names were Margarita and Abulfaz ; On people who instantly transformed after the fall of Communism ; On a loneliness that resembles happiness ; On wanting to kill them all and the horror of realizing that you really wanted to do it ; On the old crone with a braid and the beautiful young woman ; On a stranger's grief that God has deposited on your doorstep ; On life the bitch and one hundred grams of fine powder in a little white vase ; On how nothing disgusts the dead and the silence of dust ; On the darkness of the evil one and "the other life we can build out of this one" ; On courage and what comes after
--
Notes from an everywoman.
Summary:
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes an
oral
history
of the disintegration of the
Soviet
Union
and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, this is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of
Soviet
culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of communism. Alexievich gives voice to women and men whose stories are lost in the official narratives of nation-states, creating a powerful alternative
history
from the personal and private stories of individuals. Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, in 1948 and has spent most of her life in the
Soviet
Union
and present-day Belarus, with prolonged periods of exile in Western Europe. Starting out as a journalist, she developed her own nonfiction genre, which gathers a chorus of voices to describe a specific historical moment. Her works include War's Unwomanly Face (1985), Last Witnesses (1985), Zinky Boys (1990), Voices from Chernobyl (1997), and Secondhand Time (2013)"--Provided by publisher.
Other authors:
Shayevich, Bela.
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