Gessen spends a lot of time in this book discussing definitions and how they do and don’t apply to various political realities. The subtitle “How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia” is answered through these stories as well as through Masha Gessen’s narration as historian and journalist adding historical detail and context as necessary. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.This book is structured as a kind of oral history (though written in the third person) in which four main characters and their lives tell the story of Russia and the Soviet Union from the 1970s through 2015 or so.
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. 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. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" (The 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. Putin's bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction. The Future is History : How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Masha Gessen € 23.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 2 - 4 weeks
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