Svetlana Alexievich

Secondhand Time

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In Second-Hand Time, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich takes us behind the propaganda and contrived media accounts, giving us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians who still carry memories of oppression, terror, famine, massacres—but also of pride in their country, hope for the future, and a belief that everyone was working and fighting together to bring about a utopia. Here is an account of life in the aftermath of an idea so powerful it once dominated a third of the world.
Alexievich's distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices, records the stories of ordinary women and men who are rarely give the opportunity to speak, whose experiences are often lost in the official histories of the nation. Second-Hand Time will lead the South African reader to draw unexpected parallels with life after 1994.
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706 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
Publisher
Jonathan Ball
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    1991
    —I’m a construction worker …
    Before August 1991, we lived in one country, and afterward, we lived in another. Before that August, my country was called the USSR.

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