Svetlana Alexievich
Books and literary traditions in the Volumain atlas.
Books in the world atlas
Secondhand Time
A chorus of witnesses recounts the Soviet Union’s collapse and life after communism.
In the atlas: Belarus
The Unwomanly Face of War
Women who served in the Red Army challenge the official heroic image of war.
In the atlas: Belarus
Voices from Chernobyl
Witnesses to the Chernobyl disaster describe loss, contamination and the collapse of their familiar world.
In the atlas: Belarus
Last Witnesses
Witnesses revisit childhoods marked by the Second World War through accounts of loss, hunger and survival.
In the atlas: Belarus
Boys in Zinc
Soldiers, medical staff and families reveal the human costs of the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
In the atlas: Belarus