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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Perestroika ushered monumental changes across Soviet Russia.
Chapter 3: Even today, the effects of perestroika divide Russians.
Chapter 4: Suicides were not uncommon as Communism finally collapsed.
Chapter 5: People were even willing to suffer imprisonment and torture for Communism.
Chapter 6: Soviet Russia was a state sustained by informants and a code of violence.
Chapter 7: A series of bloody conflicts followed the end of the Soviet period.
Chapter 8: If one thing hasn’t changed since Soviet times, it’s the strength of those militaristic authorities.
Description
These blinks give some revolutionary insights into an epoch-making time in Russia’s history. The author presents an oral history of Russia’s transition from Stalinism to capitalism in which she lets people who were there tell their stories. In Secondhand Time (2016), her witnesses tell us what it means to be Russian, then and now. All of them lived through this transitional period, but some did not survive.
Who Should Listen
- Cultural historians
- People who want to know more about Russia and the Cold War
- Readers curious about the Russian reaction to capitalism