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BOOK REVIEW An empire built on suffering*

By Editorial Team / August 13, 2016




SECONDHAND TIME: The last of the Soviets, An Oral History
by Svetlana Alexievich Translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich
Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016 Paperback: 520 pages Price: AUD$37.95
 
Reviewed by Jeffry Babb
 
Russia has a great tradition of literary creation. Russians are said to read more books than any other nation. Writers are the “engineers of the human soul”.
Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich writes i…

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