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

Gessen, Masha, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781432850524 (large print : hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1432850520 (large print : hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 879 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 788-975).
Formatted Contents Note:
Born in 1984 -- Life, examined -- Privilege -- Homo sovieticus -- Swan Lake -- The execution of the White House -- Everyone wants to be a millionaire -- Grief, arrested -- Old songs -- It's all over all over again -- Life after death -- The orange menace -- All in the family -- The future is history -- Budushchego net -- White ribbons -- Masha: May 6, 2012 -- Seryozha: July 18, 2013 -- Lyosha: June 11, 2013 -- A nation divided -- Zhanna: February 27, 2015 -- Forever war.
Summary, etc.:
Journalist Masha 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.
Awards Note:
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2017
Subject: Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991-
Russia (Federation) > History > 1991-
Moscow (Russia) > Intellectual life.
Russia (Federation) > Biography.
Large type books.

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The Future Is History : How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
The Future Is History : How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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Author Notes

The Future Is History : How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen is a Russian American journalist. She has written several books including The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, and The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2017. (Bowker Author Biography)


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