Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets /: the last of the Soviets. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Second hand time
• Uniform Title: Vremi︠a︡ sekond khėnd.
• Further Information: Note: Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Bela Shayevich.
• Other Names: Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-
• Contents: Chronology: Russia after Stalin -- 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 crushed against the pavement, 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Jonathan Ball Publishers
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (300 pages)
• Subjects: 947.086092/2; Post-communism -- Russia (Federation); Oral history -- Russia (Federation); Oral history -- Soviet Union; Nobel prize in literature; 20160531 NEW LIST; HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics; HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Oral history; Post-communism; Social conditions; Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-; Soviet Union -- Social conditions; Russia (Federation) -- Biography; Soviet Union -- Biography; Russia (Federation); Soviet Union; Russia (Federation); Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Social conditions; Soviet Union -- Biography; Biographies; Biography; Biographies; Biographies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781868427352; 1868427358
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.