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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a ’peace-keeping’ mission, the dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins. Boys in Zinc presents the honest testimonies of soldiers, doctors…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing ”a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as ”a history of emotions–a history of the soul.” Alexievich’s distinctive documentary style, combining extended individual monologues…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph’Astonishing. . .
Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth’ – Caroline Moorehead, GuardianExtraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second…