The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 515 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction
947.086
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947.086
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Morro Bay Library - Adult Nonfiction
947.086
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947.086
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Morro Bay Library - Adult Nonfiction | 947.086 | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
Format
Book
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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. In The Future Is History, she 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.
Awards
National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2018.
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