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05072aam a22007814i 4500 001 7199F940288711E68E92CCAFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20190815012642 008 160209s2016 nyu r 000 0ceng d 010 $a 2016005925 020 $a 0399588809 (hardback : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9780399588808 (hardback : acid-free paper) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SKYRV $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h rus 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a DK510.76 $b .A44913 2016 082 00 $a 947.086092/2 $2 23 100 1 $a Aleksievich, Svetlana, $d 1948- 240 10 $a VremiÍ¡a sekond kheÌnd. $l English 245 10 $a Secondhand time : $b the last of the Soviets / $c Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Bela Shayevich. 246 3 $a Second hand time 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House, $c 2016. 300 $a xiv, 470 pages ; $c 25 cm. 500 $a First published in Russian in 2013. 505 0 $a 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. 520 2 $a "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. As in all her books, Alexievich gives voice to women and men whose stories are lost in the official narratives of nation-states, creating a powerful alternative history from the personal and private stories of individuals"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Post-communism $z Russia (Federation) 650 0 $a Oral history $z Russia (Federation) 650 0 $a Oral history $z Soviet Union. 651 0 $a Russia (Federation) $x Social conditions $y 1991- 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a Russia (Federation) $v Biography. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $v Biography. 941 $a 32 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403014304.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305013352.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019014358.0 952 $l RNPC397 $d 20230805012014.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092648.0 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20230310014315.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201015302.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20221025012413.0 952 $l LTAX046 $d 20220805011556.0 952 $l TKPE492 $d 20211118020614.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20211009012109.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722053037.0 952 $l GHPD771 $d 20210204021856.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20200228010042.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204083117.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110065023.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20190328020629.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20181107050851.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006095204.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20180808032301.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720044943.0 952 $l HYAX325 $d 20180623024435.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20170802013105.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418115058.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20170404010531.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20170304020512.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170302014753.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20161129024723.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20160824010738.0 952 $l OOAX232 $d 20160723010248.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20160602011119.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20160602010747.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7199F940288711E68E92CCAFDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search