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Language
English
Description
"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....
2) Russia
Series
Reference shelf volume 82, no. 4
Publisher
H.W. Wilson Co
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 214 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A highly original narrative history by The Economist's Moscow bureau chief that does for modern Russia what Evan Osnos did for China in The Age of Ambition. The end of communism and breakup of the Soviet Union was a time of euphoria around the world, but Russia today is violently anti-American and dangerously nationalistic. So how did we go from the promise of those heady days to the autocratic police state of Putin's new Russia? The Invention of...
Author
Series
East European monographs volume no. 444
Publisher
East European Monographs
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
2 v. (xlii, 1761 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After communism in the Soviet Union came chaos. Ordinary Russians, liberated from a controlled and communal society, woke up in 1992 to a life that seemed to have no rules. For some, the new disorder offered possibilities--to get rich, to enjoy the excesses of life without a brutal government intervening. For others, it has been a time to worship or create freely, or to leave the country altogether. For many, however, freedom is like being abandoned...
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