Life is lies and truths & love and death: Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets…
[contentcards url=”https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/love-and-death-in-revolution-square”] The plight of the once proud elite, forced to pawn its libraries and turn to cleaning offices and collecting and selling jars of cigarette butts, is a tale of monumental betrayal and humiliation. “Russian novels don’t teach you how to become successful, how to get rich,” Alexievich is told. An entire generation suddenly