The sweeping, urgent, revelatory history of post-Soviet Russia in which the great dissident exile Masha Gessen reveals precisely how the hope of democracy gave way to a devastating new strain of autocracy.
Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of several books
including Blood Matters and The Man Without a Face, which was
longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012. She has contributed
to the New Republic, the New Statesman, Granta, Slate and Vanity
Fair. She lives in Moscow.
Indispensable
*Guardian*
The Future is History is a beautifully-written, sensitively-argued
and cleverly-structured journey through Russia's failure to build
democracy. The difficulty for any book about Russia is how to make
the world's biggest country human-sized, and she succeeds by
building her story around the lives of a half-dozen people, whose
fortunes wax and wane as the country opens up, then closes down
once more. It is a story about hope and despair, trauma and
treatment, ideals and betrayal, and above all about love and
cynicism. If you want to truly understand why Vladimir Putin has
been able to so dominate his country, this book will help you
*Oliver Bullough*
A brave and eloquent critic of the Putin regime... For anyone
wondering how Russia ended up in the hands of Putin and his
friends, and what it means for the rest of us, Gessen's book gives
us an alarming and convincing picture
*The Times*
A provocative new book [where] Gessen ably weaves [the four
protagonists'] lives into a gripping, if grim, tapestry
*Economist*
A finely-wrought narrative of Russia's turbulent history...
Fascinating... The Future is History presents a Russia whose [...]
people are condemned decade after decade to rehearse the same drama
of tyranny and obedience
*Guardian*
Excellent and readable
*Observer*
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