Russia witnessed several revolutions, unrest, and bloody civil wars at the beginning of the twentieth century, resulting in the emergence of the Soviet Union, which formed an image of the great and invincible empire. Some saw in it the fulfillment of the red socialist dream of building a superpower whose influence extended over almost half the world. While some saw it as one of the harshest forms of oppressive totalitarian rule, with huge detention centers and a difficult economic situation. In the year 1991, this empire collapsed rapidly after several revolutions, unrest, and bloody civil wars, and the red man woke up to suddenly find himself living in the ruins of an empire collapsing into dozens of conflicting countries, witnessing a massive economic collapse and the end of the great dreams he had lived. In her book, Svetlana does not search for answers to the big questions that interest the reader of history, but rather for thousands of small details of past daily life by collecting dozens of testimonies from ordinary people who lived this experience and its ups and downs. Svetlana searches for the small night conversations that disappear with the morning, for the dream of a new future, of another time. However, it is the same time repeated; Used time. .
