In Secondhand Time, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich chronicles the demise of communism. Everyday Russian citizens recount the past thirty years, showing us what life was like during the fall of the Soviet Union and what its like to live in the new Russia left in its wake. Through-interviews spanning 1991 to 2012, Alexievich gives us a panoramic portrait of contemporary Russia and Russians, combining extended individual monologues with a collage of voices in her distinctive documentary style. A magnificent tapestry of the sorrows and triumphs of the human spirit, Secondhand Time tells the stories that together make up the true history of a nation.