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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen

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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

The Future Is History won the 2017 National Book Award in Nonfiction and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award. The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. In The Future Is History, Gessen 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, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.

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Publisher
Penguin
Year
2017
ISBN-13
9780698406209
Genre
Politics & Current Affairs
Topics
Russian politicsTotalitarianismPost-Soviet society

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