Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Through interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism as everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what it's like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER.