Second-hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich Penguin classics but not enough to give

but not enough to give the 'Whites' a real chance of victory

along with an oppositional public sphere

Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the 1917 revolution and subsequent Civil War

At the end of the Second World War

played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union

Second-hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich Penguin classics but not enough to giveSecond hand Time, out in paperback for the first time, is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for inventing 'a new kind of literary genre'. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise what new kind of man may emerge from the rubble. Fashioning a singular, polyphonic literary form