The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (924 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XQZPVDD |
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| Number of Pages | : | 188 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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It is a story about hope and despair, trauma and treatment, ideals and betrayal, and above all about love and cynicism. 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 c
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. 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
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. 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), aw