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The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia  Cover Image Book Book

The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia / Masha Gessen.

Gessen, Masha, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 159463453X (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781594634536 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781594634536 : HRD
  • ISBN: 159463453X : HRD
  • ISBN: 9781594634536 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 159463453X (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780698406209
  • ISBN: 0698406206
  • Physical Description: xii, 515 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-506) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part one. Born in the USSR -- Born in 1984 -- Life, examined -- Privilege -- Homo sovieticus -- Part two. Revolution -- Swan Lake -- The execution of the White House -- Everyone wants to be a millionaire -- Part three. Unraveling -- Grief, arrested -- Old songs -- It's all over all over again -- Part four. Resurrection -- Life after death -- The orange menace -- All in the family -- Part five. Protest -- The future is history -- Budushchego net -- White ribbons -- Masha: May 6, 2012 -- Part six. Crackdown -- Seryozha: July 18, 2013 -- Lyosha: June 11, 2013 -- A nation divided -- Zhanna: February 27, 2015 -- Forever war.
Summary, etc.:
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.
Subject: Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991-
Russia (Federation) > History > 1991-
Moscow (Russia) > Intellectual life.
Russia (Federation) > Biography.
Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991-
Russia (Federation) > History > 1991-
Russia (Federation) > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

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Babcock Library - Ashford 947.086 Ges (Text) 33110140763861 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford 947.086 GESSEN, M. (Text) 32544072474751 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton 947.086 Ges (Text) 33160142349185 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Brookfield Library 947.086/GESSEN (Text) 34029139719362 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport 947.086 GESSEN (Text) 34000081274409 Adult Nonfiction Available -
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown 947.086 GES (Text) 34014140330284 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Chester Public Library 947.086 GES (Text) 33210000393989 Adult Nonfiction Available -
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village 947.086 Ges (Text) 33180141779406 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe 947.086 GESSEN (Text) 34026139795343 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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