The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Unabridged) The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Unabridged)

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 

WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD  

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWLOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POSTBOSTON GLOBESEATTLE TIMESCHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR


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. 

Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. 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.

GENRE
History
NARRATOR
MG
Masha Gessen
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
16:45
hr min
RELEASED
2017
October 3
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
1
GB

Customer Reviews

walkingspanishdownthehall ,

Amazing

Her story telling takes you down a winding path until suddenly she opens a curtain and lets you see a deeper understanding of whats behind the stories and the winding path. Brilliant writing!

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