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Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich - Book Summary
“The Echo of a Lost World: Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time”
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Title: Secondhand Time
Author: Svetlana Alexievich
Category: World History, Memoirs & Life Stories
What happens to a person when the entire world they believed in vanishes overnight? Sam and Sophie sit with that question as they unpack Svetlana Alexievich's oral history of the Soviet collapse and its aftermath.
They walk through the 'homo sovieticus' mindset—a collectivist…
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