Voices of Utopia Series by Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen, Krystyna Czubówna

4.43 · 116 ratings
  • Wojna nie ma w sobie nic z kobiety (Voices of Utopia #1)
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    Wojna nie ma w sobie nic z kobiety (Voices of Utopia #1)

    Svetlana Alexievich, Krystyna Czubówna

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 1983

    New English translation of original 1985 book by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown.. more

  • Poslednie svideteli (Voices of Utopia #2)
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    Poslednie svideteli (Voices of Utopia #2)

    Svetlana Alexievich

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1985

    This is the second book (the first one was "War's Unwomanly Face") in the famous fiction-documentary cycle "The Voices of Utopia" by Svetlana Alexievich. These are the recollections of the Great Patriotic War by those who were 6-12 years old during the war - its most impartial and unhappiest witnesses. The war seen through children's eyes is ever scarier than the one captured through women's eyes... more

  • Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Voices of Utopia #3)
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    Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Voices of Utopia #3)

    Svetlana Alexievich

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1989

    From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties - and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. In Zinky Boys journalist Svetlana Alexievich gives voice to the tragic history of the Afghanistan War... more

  • Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Voices of Utopia #4)
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    Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Voices of Utopia #4)

    Svetlana Alexievich, Keith Gessen

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings · published 1997

    Written by the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureOn April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal accounts of the tragedy... more

  • Время секонд хэнд (Voices of Utopia #5)
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    Время секонд хэнд (Voices of Utopia #5)

    Svetlana Alexievich

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2013

    From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of Communism... more

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