Was just too much for me to read in one sitting, so I read a few each night before bed. In Secondhand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. These conversations discuss the I'm not an expert in Soviet history, and I really enjoyed this book. These conversations discuss the feelings and attitudes of Russian citizens about the fall of the Soviet Union, the abandonment of communism, and the disillusionment of a brighter future. I was reminded most of Studs Terkel’s oral histories, but I would be more likely to recommend this to those with a particular interest in Russian history. “Already hailed as a masterpiece across Europe, Secondhand Time is an intimate portrait of a country yearning for meaning after the sudden lurch from Communism to capitalism in the 1990s plunged it into existential crisis. Transcriptions of dozens of interviews with dozens of Russians, all ex-Soviet citizens, about what it was like to live through the collapse of the USSR, the defeat of communism and the rise of the gangster oligarchy. Read a quick 1-Page Summary, a Full Summary, or watch video summaries curated by our expert team. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Secondhand time: the last of the soviets summary
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