Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets is a 2013 book by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. An oral history of the Soviet Union and its end, it shares the feelings and views of its peopl
Secondhand Time The Last of the Soviets
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Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American writer, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histo
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
…Dwight Garner described it as an "enormous radio" of stories but commented that they sometimes are "baggy and repetitive". Comparing the author to Studs Terkel, Garner praised the observations of Alexievich and the English translation's quality. In The Australian, Mireille Juchau wrote that the work had "magnetic…
Terkel in 1979
Studs Terkel before his 95th birthday party at the Chicago History Museum