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Second-hand time. The end of the red man

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Name of the original Час second-hand. Кінець червоної людини
Publishing house Фоліо
Author Світлана Алексієвич
Language Ukrainian
Year of publication 2020
Number of pages 480
lining Hard
ISBN 978-966-03-9220-5
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Standing on the ruins of the USSR, Russia's new empire was in no hurry to say goodbye to its past, which, moreover, put up a diabolical resistance to the new age. This gave rise to a transitional epoch, which Svitlana Aleksievich rightly called the second-hand period. Second-hand time is a monologue of people who were "lucky" to live in the USSR and in the period its disintegration. From these revelations - from lovingly nostalgic to terribly sad - and makes a mosaic portrait of the "Soviet man", who, despite the difficulties of life at the time - persecution by the authorities, ideological pressure, ascetic life - more misses the time and enough These monologues are rarely saturated with human suffering, physical and mental pain, painful longing for the lost, the desire to complain about a difficult fate, disappointment in the present and romanticization of some unfulfilled past.
< Together with her characters, the writer shows that the period of Yeltsin's democracy was a screen that no profound social change took place. And the Soviet system demanded the continuation

in another monster ...

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