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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10159463453X
ISBN-139781594634536
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Book TitleFuture Is History (National Book Award Winner) : How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWorld / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Sociology / General, Modern / 21st Century, Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year2017
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorMasha Gessen
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight25.6 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-014363
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"A devastating, timely, and necessary reminder of the fragility and preciousness of all institutions of freedom." - Booklist (starred) "Brilliant...A worthwhile read that describes how Putin's powerful grip on Russia developed, offering a dire warning of how other nations could fall under a similar spell of state control." - Library Journal "An intimate look at Russia in the post-Soviet period, when the public's hopes for democracy devolved within a restricted society characterized by "a constant state of low-level dread"...a well-crafted, inventive narrative." - Publisher's Weekly "Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest. At this particular historical moment, when we must understand Russia to understand ourselves, we are all very lucky to have her." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny "A fine example of journalism approximating art. 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 Future is History is a beautifully-written, sensitively-argued and cleverly-structured journey through Russia's failure to build democracy. The difficulty for any book about Russia is how to make the world's biggest country human-sized, and she succeeds by building her story around the lives of a half-dozen people, whose fortunes wax and wane as the country opens up, then closes down once more. It is a story about hope and despair, trauma and treatment, ideals and betrayal, and above all about love and cynicism. If you want to truly understand why Vladimir Putin has been able to so dominate his country, this book will help you.' - Oliver Bullough, author of Let Our Fame Be Great and The Last Man in Russia Praise for The Man Without A Face : "Gessen has shown remarkable courage . . . [An] unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." --The Wall Street Journal "[Gessen] shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin's story. . . . Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." --Foreign Affairs "Absorbing." --The New Yorker "Powerful and gracefully written." --San Francisco Chronicle, Praise for The Man Without A Face : "Gessen has shown remarkable courage . . . [An] unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." --The Wall Street Journal "[Gessen] shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin's story. . . . Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." --Foreign Affairs "Absorbing." --The New Yorker "Powerful and gracefully written." --San Francisco Chronicle, "One of Putin''s most fearless and dogged critics tracks the devastating descent of post-Soviet Russia into authoritarianism and kleptocracy through the lives of four disillusioned citizens." - Esquire "Starting with the decline, if not the disintegration, of the Soviet regime, Masha Gessen''s The Future is History tracks totalitarianism through the lens of generation raised in post-Communist Russia." - Vanity Fair , "Hot Type" "Brilliant and sobering...writing in fluent English, with formidable powers of synthesis and a mordant wit, Gessen follows the misfortunes of four Russians who have lived most of their lives under Putin...Gessen vividly chronicles the story of a mortal struggle." - Newsday "A lively and intimate narrative of the USSR''s collapse and its aftershocks, through the eyes of seven individuals... A gifted writer, Gessen is at her best when she''s recounting her characters'' experiences." - Bookforum "Russia is more at the forefront of our minds now than it''s been in all the time since the Cold War, and who better to enlighten us on the evolution of this complicated nation than journalist and Putin biographer Masha Gessen? Through her profiles of various Russians including four born in the 1980s, Gessen crafts a narrative that deciphers the Soviet Union''s move toward - and retreat from - democracy." - Signature Reads "A devastating, timely, and necessary reminder of the fragility and preciousness of all institutions of freedom." - Booklist (starred) "Brilliant...A worthwhile read that describes how Putin''s powerful grip on Russia developed, offering a dire warning of how other nations could fall under a similar spell of state control." - Library Journal "An intimate look at Russia in the post-Soviet period, when the public''s hopes for democracy devolved within a restricted society characterized by "a constant state of low-level dread"...a well-crafted, inventive narrative." - Publisher''s Weekly "Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest. At this particular historical moment, when we must understand Russia to understand ourselves, we are all very lucky to have her." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny "A fine example of journalism approximating art. 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 Future is History is a beautifully-written, sensitively-argued and cleverly-structured journey through Russia''s failure to build democracy. The difficulty for any book about Russia is how to make the world''s biggest country human-sized, and she succeeds by building her story around the lives of a half-dozen people, whose fortunes wax and wane as the country opens up, then closes down once more. It is a story about hope and despair, trauma and treatment, ideals and betrayal, and above all about love and cynicism. If you want to truly understand why Vladimir Putin has been able to so dominate his country, this book will help you.'' - Oliver Bullough, author of Let Our Fame Be Great and The Last Man in Russia Praise for The Man Without A Face : "Gessen has shown remarkable courage . . . [An] unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." --The Wall Street Journal "[Gessen] shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin''s story. . . . Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." --Foreign Affairs "Absorbing." --The New Yorker "Powerful and gracefully written." --San Francisco Chronicle
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SynopsisWINNER 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 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., 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 A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY 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.
LC Classification NumberDK510.763.G48 2017
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