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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Book • 2017
In The Future Is History, Masha Gessen charts the lives of four people born as democracy was emerging in Russia.
Each came of age with high expectations, only to face the machinations of a regime that crushed their aspirations and ensured the reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of a modern mafia state.
The book is a powerful and urgent cautionary tale about the dangers of totalitarianism.
Each came of age with high expectations, only to face the machinations of a regime that crushed their aspirations and ensured the reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of a modern mafia state.
The book is a powerful and urgent cautionary tale about the dangers of totalitarianism.
