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If you want some insight into the Russian mindset, try the works of Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. Her new book, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, has just been published in English. It is an exploration of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the psychological effects of that event on the people who witnessed it. She's been speaking to Gabriel Gatehouse.