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Secondhand Time is an amazing listening experience

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Naomi K
Jan 28, 2017
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I'm listening to Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time, which is a collection of oral histories from people who lived through the fall of the Soviet Union. There are a few interviews here from Soviet dissidents and pro-capitalist folks, but mostly the reactions are from people whose feelings are a lot more mixed. Most of them feel as if something has be…

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