Secondhand Time

"Secondhand Time" is one of Svetlana Alexievich's most powerful and resonant works, concluding her great cycle "Red Man. Voices of Utopia." The author explores the phenomenon of "homo soveticus" through the vivid monologues of people collected during travels throughout the former Soviet Union. These are stories of disillusionment, loss, hope, silence, and violence, about a world that tried to remake man—and about man who survives after the collapse of utopia. A book that became a diagnosis of an era and a reflection of post-Soviet consciousness.