The fifth and final book in the celebrated documentary series 'Voices of Utopia' by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for its polyphonic work—a monument to the suffering and courage of our time.' 'Communism had a mad plan,' says the author, 'to remake the 'old' man, the decrepit Adam. And it worked... Perhaps the only thing that worked. For more than seventy years, the laboratory of Marxism-Leninism has produced a distinct human type—Homo soveticus. Some consider him a tragic figure, others call him a 'sovok.' I feel like I know this man; I know him well; I lived alongside him, side by side, for many years. He is me. These are my acquaintances, friends, parents.' The monologues included in the book were recorded over ten years during trips throughout the former Soviet Union.