Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich

Author:Svetlana Alexievich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

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*1 The Leningrad Blockade lasted from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944. Nazi troops had the city surrounded, effectively cutting citizens off from supply lines and paths of escape. As a result, nearly a million of the city’s residents died, mainly of starvation, as they were forced to survive on minuscule rations and whatever else they were desperate enough to eat.

*2 Dark Alleys is the title of Ivan Bunin’s 1943 collection of short stories.

*3 Wheras samizdat designates the clandestine or illegal production and circulation of literature within the Soviet Union, tamizdat specifically refers to Russian writings that were published abroad and smuggled back into the USSR.

*4 Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) was a Russian philosopher who emigrated to France in 1920. Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992) was an Austrian liberal philosopher and essayist.

*5 The Eastern Borderlands refers to the territory covered by present-day Western Ukraine, Belarus, and Latvia, which were a part of Poland in the interwar years (1918–1939).

*6 “Bulba” is Belarusian (and Ukrainian) for potato. “Bulbochka” is the diminutive.

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