About “Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets”
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets is a 2013 book by Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian Nobel laureate. It is an oral history that documents the Soviet Union and its collapse, focusing on the emotions and perspectives of its people during the shift to capitalism. The book includes minimal personal commentary from the author. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 2013