Secondhand Time
19 hrs. 19 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Svetlana Alexievich
Author
Svetlana Alexievich
Narrator
Marina Bakina
Narrator
Marina Bakina
Description
Svetlana Alexievich’s “Second-Hand Time” is the final book of the famous cycle “Voices of Utopia,” by a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
“Communism had a crazy plan—to remake the ‘old’ person, a crumbling Eve. And it worked… Maybe the only thing that worked. Over more than seventy years, in the laboratory of Marxism-Leninism, they bred a separate type of human—homo soveticus. Some call it a tragic character, others call it ‘sovok.’ I think I know this person. I’m familiar with her; I lived close to her, side by side, for many years. She is me. These are my acquaintances, my friends, my parents.”
The monologues included in the book were recorded over ten years during trips across the former Soviet Union.
“Communism had a crazy plan—to remake the ‘old’ person, a crumbling Eve. And it worked… Maybe the only thing that worked. Over more than seventy years, in the laboratory of Marxism-Leninism, they bred a separate type of human—homo soveticus. Some call it a tragic character, others call it ‘sovok.’ I think I know this person. I’m familiar with her; I lived close to her, side by side, for many years. She is me. These are my acquaintances, my friends, my parents.”
The monologues included in the book were recorded over ten years during trips across the former Soviet Union.
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20:34
00_00_Zapiski souchastnika
43:37
01_01_Uteshenie apokalipsisom. Iz ulichnogo shuma i razgovorov na kuhne (1991—2001)
1:27:30
01_02_Desyat istoriy v krasnom interere. O krasote diktatury i tayne babochki v tsemente
36:27
01_03_O bratyah i sestrah, palachah i zhertvah… i elektorate
39:52
01_04_O shepote i krike… i vostorge
1:25:07
01_05_Ob odinokom krasnom marshale i treh dnyah zabytoy revolyutsii
1:00:45
01_06_O milostyne vospominaniy i pohoti smysla
1:02:23
01_07_O drugoy biblii i drugih veruyuschih
58:49
01_08_O zhestokosti plameni i spasenii vysyu
1:13:54
01_09_O sladosti stradaniya i fokuse russkogo duha
34:44
01_10_O vremeni, kogda vsyakiy, kto ubivaet, dumaet, chto on sluzhit Bogu
1:37:06
01_11_O malenkom krasnom flazhke i ulybke topora
34:24
02_01_Obayanie pustoty. Iz ulichnogo shuma i razgovorov na kuhne (2002—2012)
43:40
02_02_Desyat istoriy bez interera. O Romeo i Dzhulette… tolko zvali ih Margarita i Abulfaz
44:11
02_03_O lyudyah, kotoryy srazu stali drugimi «posle kommunizma»
35:27
02_04_Ob odinochestve, kotoroe ochen pohozhe na schaste
38:19
02_05_O zhelanii ih vseh ubit, a potom o strahe, chto tebe etogo hotelos
57:27
02_06_O staruhe s kosoy i krasivoy devushke
34:44
02_07_O chuzhom gore, kotoroe Bog polozhil na porog vashego doma
29:13
02_08_O zhizni-suke i sta grammah legkogo pesochka v beloy vazochke
57:17
02_09_O nebrezglivosti mertvyh i tishine pyli
48:55
02_10_O tme lukavoy i o «drugoy zhizni, kotoruyu mozhno sdelat iz etoy»
33:04
02_11_O muzhestve i posle nego
02:28
02_12_Primechanie obyvatelya
