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- Title
PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AS A HISTORIAN NO. 12: SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH.
- Authors
Lee, Alexander
- Abstract
The article mentions the homo sovieticus type of man emerging from the Marxist-Leninist regime of the Soviet Union, described as someone who had developed his own concept of good and evil. Topics discussed include the impact of high military expenditure on the Soviet economy under Leonid Brezhnev, Belarusian investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich's leanings toward Communism, and the societal experience of homo sovieticus under the Communist Party.
- Subjects
SOVIET economy; SOVIET Union politics &; government; GOOD &; evil; BREZHNEV, Leonid, 1906-1982; ALEKSIEVICH, Svetlana, 1948-; KOMMUNISTICHESKAIA partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza
- Publication
History Today, 2017, Vol 67, Issue 6, p86
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article