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#AdventOfBooks 2024 day 6: Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich #Bookstodon

An oral history of the end of the Soviet Union, as told to the author

It's an chronicle of a bygone time, of a period of tumultuous change, and of a new normal afterwards, told through the words of ordinary people, of people who succeeded and failed in their lives under either system

Most of all it's the story of a sharp break, where people steeped in the old culture don't understand the new, and vice versa