03590cam a2200469 i 4500 357766122 TxAuBib 160209s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016005925 9780399588808 0399588809 (OCoLC)939597136 DLC eng DLC TnLvILS rda TxAuBib rda eng rus Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948- Vremi͡a sekond khėnd English. Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets / Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Bela Shayevich. Second-hand time : the last of the Soviets. Secondhand time : an oral history. First U.S. edition. New York : Random House, [2016] xiv, 470 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "An oral history"--Front cover. Translation of: Vremi͡a sekond khėnd. Chronology -- Remarks from an accomplice -- I. 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 -- II. 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 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 grammes 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. Alexievich charts the decline of Soviet culture and speculates on what will rise from the ashes of communism. Alexievich gives voice to women and men whose stories are lost in the official narratives of nation-states, creating [an] alternative history from the personal and private stories of individuals. Nobel prize in literature, 2015. Post-communism Russia (Federation.) Oral history Russia (Federation.) Oral history Soviet Union. HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics. HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991- Russia (Federation) Biography. Soviet Union Social conditions. Soviet Union Biography. Shayevich, Bela, translator. QS7