Doba z druhé ruky - Konec rudého člověka - CDmp3

A reading from the book awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015. Second-Hand Time is an extraordinary book by an exceptional author, a laureate of the most prestigious Russian, European, and American literary awards. The end of the communist regime and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet empire brought disappointment, frustration, and disorientation to its citizens after initial hopes. The text is a mosaic of dozens of real voices that Alexievich recorded on tape during interviews with various people. They tell of how they believed in the Soviet system, how they killed and died for its idea, and speak of the secrets and horrors of communism, of the Stalinist gulag, wars, Chernobyl... A variety of fates and opinions parade before the reader, from which common traumas and obsessions gradually emerge. The heroes of the book consider August 1991, when hundreds of thousands of Russians took to the streets of Moscow to confront the tanks of the coup plotters attempting to reverse the democratic reforms of the previous two years, as the peak of the free uprising of Russian society. It was a moment of great, albeit vague hopes, after which came a sobering reality. Russians imagined capitalism as some sort of large supermarket and suddenly woke up one day in a country that belonged to...