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The Future Is History

How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Book • 2017

The Future Is History charts the coming-of-age of four Russians born in the early 1980s, tracing their experiences from the optimism of post-Soviet reforms to the resurgence of authoritarianism under Vladimir Putin.

The book offers a nuanced understanding of Russian society and its recurrent totalitarianism.

Through personal narratives and intellectual history, Gessen diagnoses the societal and political shifts that have shaped Russia's contemporary governance.

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in the episode introduction as the guest speaker and author of "Our History is the Future."

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as one of M. Gessen's eleven books, which won the National Book Award in 2017.

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as something he loves and highly recommends to anybody listening.

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