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Zinky Boys : Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexiévich (1992, Trade Paperback)

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From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties--and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR--it was called by reviewers there a "slanderous piece of fantasy" and part of a "hysterical chorus of malign attacks"-- Zinky Boys presents the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, nurses and prostitutes, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam. The Soviet dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins (hence the term "Zinky Boys"), while the state denied the very existence of the conflict. Svetlana Alexievich brings us the truth of the Soviet-Afghan War: the beauty of the country and the savage Army bullying, the killing and the mutilation, the profusion of Western goods, the shame and shattered lives of returned veterans. Zinky Boys offers a unique, harrowing, and unforgettably powerful insight into the realities of war.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393336867
ISBN-13
9780393336863
eBay Product ID (ePID)
126657776

Product Key Features

Book Title
Zinky Boys : Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
Author
Svetlana Alexiévich
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Asia / Central Asia, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Military
Publication Year
1992
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
220 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz

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""[Alexievich's] voice is much more than the sum of [her subject's] voices . . . [making] that war as all-encompassingly present and personal--as real--as any fictional account ever did for any other war.", For the past 30 or 40 years [Alexievich has] been busy mapping the Soviet and post-Soviet individual, but [her work is] not really about a history of events. It's a history of emotions--what she's offering us is really an emotional world, . . . a history of the soul.
Dewey Decimal
958.104/5
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20

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