Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich Russian culture The book shows how

The book shows how

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

and Mark Aldanov's sparkling story of an elderly astrologer who unexpectedly finds himself in Hitler's bunker in Berlin

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In the late 1970s

Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich Russian culture The book shows howExtraordinary 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