Secondhand Time
The Last of the Soviets
Ranked #7 in Interviewing, Ranked #24 in Russian History — see more rankings.
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, 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,... more
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Sam Freedman @martinbright It's amazing. Have you read Second Hand Time? Best book of the century so far for me. Just incredible. (Source)
Stephanie Flanders The power comes from the stories themselves, the people she found and talked to. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Secondhand Time is ranked in the following categories:
- #25 in Communism
- #90 in Modern History
- #43 in Nobel
- #40 in Russian
- #89 in The Cold War
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