The Image of the 1990s in the Book by Svetlana Alexievich “Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets”

Abstract

The article focuses on the memory of the transformation processes of the 1990s. their participants, residents of the post-Soviet space, who became respondents, and then heroes of the fiction-documentary book by Svetlana Alexievich “Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets”. On the basis of the memory of the heroes of the book, an image of the 90s is constructed, which testifies to the cultural trauma of society.