Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich Russian culture Leskov’s writing exuberantly fables the

Leskov’s writing exuberantly fables the national character of his age

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Queer in Russia fills a gap in both Russian and cultural studies

In the late 1970s

Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich Russian culture Leskov’s writing exuberantly fables theExtraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich. What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the