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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Ever wonder what it’s like to live through the end of a world you thought was permanent? To watch your entire country—and the rules you lived by—implode overnight? Svetlana Alexievich’s “Secondhand Time” lets you eavesdrop on the messy, heartbreaking, often absurd stories of people who did exactly that. Spoiler: it’s not the tidy history lesson you signed up for.
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