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The Future is History

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How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

by Masha Gessen
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Publication Date: 25/10/2017
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**Winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Non-Fiction USA**

The sweeping, urgent, revelatory history of post-Soviet Russia in which the great dissident exile Masha Gessen reveals precisely how the hope of democracy gave way to a devastating new strain of autocracy.

In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or 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 not only against the machinations of the regime that would seek to crush them all (censorship, intimidation, violence) but also against the war it waged on understanding itself, ensuring the unobstructed emergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state.

The Future is History is a powerful and urgent cautionary tale by contemporary Russia's most fearless inquisitor.

ISBN:
9781783784097
9781783784097
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-10-2017
Publisher:
Granta Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
528
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x31mm
Weight:
0.61kg
Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of several books including Blood Matters and The Man Without a Face, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012.

She has contributed to the New Republic, the New Statesman, Granta, Slate and Vanity Fair. She lives in Moscow.

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I found this book gripping, revealing, and altogether brilliant. The author found seven people who were willing to be interviewed in depth about their lives, and intellectual and/or political endeavours. She weaves threads from transcripts of their interviews into an account of recent historical events in Russia, as these were reflected in social and political relations, feelings, daily life.

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