The Future is History

The Future is History

by Masha Gessen
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/10/2017

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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:
9781783784011
9781783784011
Category:
Politics & government
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-10-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Granta Publications
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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