Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Secondhand Time is 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, Secondhand Time 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. As in all her books, 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2016
- ISBN-13
- 9780399588808
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Fall of the Soviet UnionPost-Soviet RussiaOral history
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestWon(2016)
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlistedMajor(2016)
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