"Fascinating and deeply felt." -The New York Times Book Review
"Forceful and eloquent on the history of her native country, Gessen is alarming and pessimistic about its future as it doubles down on totalitarianism." -Los Angeles Times "A remarkable portrait of an ever-shifting era...Gessen weaves her characters' stories into a seamless, poignant whole. Her analysis of Putin's malevolent administration is just as effective...a harrowing, compassionate and important book." -San Francisco Chronicle "Ambitious, timely, insightful and unsparing ... By far Gessen's best book, a sweeping intellectual history of Russia over the past four decades, told through a Tolstoyan gallery of characters. ... What makes the book so worthwhile ... are its keen observations about Russia from the point of view of those experiencing its return to a heavy-handed state. It helps that Gessen is a participant, and not just an observer, able to translate that world adeptly for Western readers. ... You feel right there on the streets." -Washington Post "[R]eads almost like a Tolstoy novel...Gessen outlines the failure of Russia's reform with precision and humanity, thoroughly explaining the strength of an authoritarian government's hold on its citizens' psyche. It's not just history; it is an urgent awakening." -Buzzfeed "[Gessen's] essential reportage traces her homeland's political devolution through the dramatic real stories of four citizens who now face 'a new set of impossible choices.'" -O Magazine "Current events, ongoing, recognizable, and important to realize." - Tom Hanks "Remarkable...Gessen's deft blending of...stories gives us a fresh view of recent Russian history with from within, as it was experienced at the time by its people. It is a welcome perspective." -New York Review of Books "Excellent...Gessen's cast of characters tell a powerful story of their own, giving us an intimate look into the minds of a group crucial to understanding the country's brief experience of democracy and of the authoritarian regime that follows." -New RepublicWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
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WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN 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.
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