The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by Masha Gessen /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award in
Nonfiction
Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award in
NonfictionPutin’s bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a
generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible
new strain of autocracy.
Putin’s bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a
generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible
new strain of autocracy.
Hailed for her “fearless indictment of the most powerful man in
Russia” (
Hailed for her “fearless indictment of the most powerful man in
Russia” (The
TheWall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal), award-winning
journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the
events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent
times. In
), award-winning
journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the
events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent
times. InThe Future Is History
The Future Is History, she follows the lives of
four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each
of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the
children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new
Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own—as
entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social
beings.
, she follows the lives of
four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each
of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the
children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new
Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own—as
entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social
beings.
Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime
that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on
understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of
the old Soviet order in the form of today’s terrifying and
seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent,
Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime
that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on
understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of
the old Soviet order in the form of today’s terrifying and
seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent,The
Future Is History
The
Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all
time.
is a cautionary tale for our time and for all
time.