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Her major books are slowly making their way into English.

“Zinky Boys” (1992), for example, about Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan, led her to be put on trial for defaming the Soviet Army. Alexievich is an investigative journalist who compiles, in Studs Terkel-like fashion, dense volumes of oral history about postwar Russia. I’m thinking too of Svetlana Alexievich, born in Ukraine, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. I’m thinking of Anna Politkovskaya, who was assassinated on Vladimir V.

There’s a bit of Danko, an element of self-sacrifice, in the lives and work of Russia’s best journalists. He rips it from his chest and uses it to light the way. His heart burns with such desire that it catches fire. In “Danko’s Burning Heart,” a short story by Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), a group of people are lost in a forest at night.