Secondhand Time
The Last of the Soviets
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Svetlana Alexievich assembles oral histories of people who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union and the upheavals that followed.
The many voices complicate any single political explanation by preserving memory, loss, adaptation, and conflicting ideas of freedom.
Why I include it
Finish the core path here, with testimony that tests the institutional histories against the experiences of people who lived through the transition.
