Books on living through the end of the USSR?

[glazbagun]

Are there any books which deal with the collapse of the Soviet system from the POV of ordinary civilians?

I was chatting to a guy who was growing up in a satellite state at the time and he basically said that all of the history he had learned was bullst overnight, then there was a couple of years of different history before it changed again. I'm too young to really remember it well, but I remember the news articles of shops with almost nothing for sale and can imagine the unemployment and organized crime that followed must have been a massive blow to the psyche of people who had grown up with a strong state.

[anonymous-user]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survived-Communism-Ev... is worth finding, it’s not as Feminist as reviews or the synopsis make out. I bought it in Croatia to read whilst I was there but only read it years later

And the recent Sergio Plokhy Chernobyl book is rich in detail and also covers some of what you’re after.

[PeteinSQ]

It's not quite on this topic but Red Plenty is a very interesting read.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/08/red-...