Second hand time

The final, fifth book of the famous artistic-documentary cycle "Voices of Utopia" by Svetlana Alexievich, the Nobel Prize laureate in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." "Communism had a crazy plan," the author says, "to transform the 'old' man, the decrepit Adam. And they succeeded... Perhaps the only thing they succeeded in. Over seventy years in the laboratory of Marxism-Leninism, they bred a distinct human type - homo sovieticus. Some consider him a tragic character, others call him a 'Sovok.' I feel like I know this person, he is familiar to me, I lived alongside him for many years. He is me. He is my acquaintances, friends, parents." The monologues included in the book were recorded over ten years during trips throughout the former Soviet Union.