The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XQZPVDD |
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| Number of Pages | : | 158 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fascinating, hard-hitting reading.” —Foreign Affairs “Absorbing.” —The New Yorker “Powerful and gracefully written.” —San Francisco Chronicle. Necessary reading for anyone trying to understand the earthshaking events of our time: how in one country after another individual aspirations for wealth and power mutated into collective cravings for strongmen.” - Pankaj Mishra, author of An End to Suffering and Age of Anger ‘The
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” (TheWall 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. 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. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that woul
A longtime resident of Moscow, Gessen now lives in New York City. . She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Slate, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and the author of several books, among them The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin