![]() Her own voice rarely obtrudes, yet paradoxically her books strike me as deeply personal. And she also records the crimes and inhumanity of the worst years of Stalin's rule.Īlexievich's books are composed of transcripts, artfully juxtaposed, of the thousands of interviews she has conducted over the past 30 years and more. They reveal too the dark underside of contemporary Russian nationalism, the often toxic alliance between the Orthodox church and Putin's regime, the resurgence of anti-Semitism, the persecution of minorities, people whose parents and grandparents thought of themselves as full citizens of a multi-ethnic state. Her books, all of them oral histories, chronicle the terrible internecine conflicts that broke out, particularly in the Caucasus. ![]() Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich vividly brings to life the speakers in Secondhand Time. ![]()
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