by Svetlana Alexievich – A powerful oral history that weaves together hundreds of interviews to show how ordinary people navigated the collapse of the USSR and the messy decade that followed.
by Derrick Widmer – A witness account of the era of privatization, mafia, and "bisnessmeni". Fiction Set in the 90s skachat knigi pro 90 e gody
If you're looking to dive into the atmosphere of the 1990s in Russia and the CIS, several seminal books capture the "wild" transition from Soviet socialism to the chaotic early days of capitalism. Essential Reading on the 1990s by Svetlana Alexievich – A powerful oral history
by Irina Lobatcheva – Focuses on the "decade of anarchy" through the eyes of ordinary citizens. Essential Reading on the 1990s by Irina Lobatcheva
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by Andrea Bennett – A comic, slightly surreal tale that reflects the disorder of the immediate post-Soviet years.