LEADER 00000pam 2200409 i 4500 003 DLC 005 20160601094731.0 008 160209s2016 nyu 000 0deng 010 2016005925 020 9780399588808 (hardback : acid-free paper) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dNjBwBT|dUtOrBLW 041 1 eng|hrus 042 pcc 043 e-ru---|ae-ur--- 082 00 947.086092/2|223 092 947.0860922|bALE 100 1 Aleksievich, Svetlana,|d1948- 245 10 Secondhand time :|bthe last of the Soviets /|cSvetlana Alexievich ; translated by Bela Shayevich. 246 3 Second hand time 250 First U.S. edition. 264 1 New York :|bRandom House,|c[2016] 300 xiv, 470 pages ;|c25 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 First published in Russian in 2013. 520 2 "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, creating a powerful alternative history from the personal and private stories of individuals"--|cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Post-communism|zRussia (Federation) 650 0 Oral history|zRussia (Federation) 650 0 Oral history|zSoviet Union. 651 0 Russia (Federation)|xSocial conditions|y1991- 651 0 Soviet Union|xSocial conditions. 651 0 Russia (Federation)|vBiography. 651 0 Soviet Union|vBiography. 730 0 Vremi︠a︡ sekond khnd.|lEnglish.
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