Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets / Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Bela Shayevich.

Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948- author. Shayevich, Bela, translator.

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ISBN: 0399588817
ISBN: 9780399588815
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 470 pages)
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016
Note: "An oral history"--Cover.
Note: "Originally published in Russian as Vremi͡a︡ sekond khėnd [Romanized] by Vremya Publishing House, Moscow, in 2013"--Title page verso.
Formatted Contents: Chronology : Russia after Stalin -- Remarks from an accomplice -- The consolation of apocalypse : snatches of street noise and kitchen conversations (1991-2001) -- Ten stories in a Red interior. On the beauty of dictatorship and the mystery of butterflies in cement ; On brothers and sisters, victims and executioners ... and the electorate ; On cries and whispers ... and exhilaration ; On the lonely Red marshal and three days of forgotten revolution ; On the mercy of memories and the lust for meaning ; On a different Bible and a different kind of believer ; On the cruelty of the flames and salvation from above ; On the sweetness of suffering and the trick of the Russian soul ; On a time when anyone who kills believes that they are serving God ; On the little Red flag and the smile of the axe -- The charms of emptiness : snatches of street noise and kitchen conversations (2002-2012) -- Ten stories in the absence of an interior. On Romeo and Juliet ... except their names were Margarita and Abulfaz ; On people who instantly transformed after the fall of Communism ; On a loneliness that resembles happiness ; On wanting to kill them all and the horror of realizing that you really wanted to do it ; On the old crone with a braid and the beautiful young woman ; On a stranger's grief that God has deposited on your doorstep ; On life the bitch and one hundred grams of fine powder in a little white vase ; On how nothing disgusts the dead and the silence of dust ; On the darkness of the evil one and "the other life we can build out of this one" ; On courage and what comes after -- Notes from an everywoman.
Source of Description, Etc.: Print version record.