The Future is History - How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Informationen zum Autor Masha Gessen is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of several books, among them the National Book Award-winning The Future is History and the Samuel Johnson prize-longlisted The Man Without a Face. The recipient of numerous other awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, Gessen lives in New York City. Klappentext In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or 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 not only against the machinations of the regime that would seek to crush them all (censorship, intimidation, violence) but also against the war it waged on understanding itself, ensuring the unobstructed emergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. The Future is History is a powerful and urgent cautionary tale by contemporary Russia's most fearless inquisitor.

About the author

Masha Gessen is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of several books, among them the National Book Award-winning The Future is History and the Samuel Johnson prize-longlisted The Man Without a Face. The recipient of numerous other awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, Gessen lives in New York City.

Product details

• Authors: Masha Gessen, Gessen Masha
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781783784028
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-402-8
• No. of pages: 515
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Russia, Social & cultural history, 21st Century, Political structure & processes, Reportage & collected journalism, c 2000 to c 2009, Social and cultural history, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, c 2010 to c 2019, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Political structure and processes, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet