Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich

In Secondhand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012 with everyday Russian citizens, taking us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, and giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, and massacres.

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