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‘The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,’Marx once said, and that could not be more true of the people of post-Soviet Russia.
The people who lived under the Stalinist regime, saw its collapse, went through the ‘end of history’ and now live under the autocratic Putin presidency have much to say about the Russian condition, past and present.
These past generations are still very much alive and can speak to their experiences, which are in turn nightmarish and joyful, full of great hopes and even greater disappointments.
A broad cross-section of these voices are highlighted in a new book by Svetlana Alexievich, entitled Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets.
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