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• Title:The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia / Masha Gessen.
  
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• Variant Title:How totalitarianism reclaimed Russia
  
• Author/Creator:Gessen, Masha, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY fireplaceWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: DK510.763 .G48 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-
  Russia (Federation)--History--1991-
  Moscow (Russia)--Intellectual life.
  Russia (Federation)--Biography.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies.
  
• Description:xii, 515 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-506) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781594634536 hardcover
  159463453X hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE I BORN IN THE USSR
  One. Born in 1984
  Two. Life, Examined
  Three. Privilege
  Four. Homo Sovieticus
  pt. TWO REVOLUTION
  Five. Swan Lake
  Six. Execution of the White House
  Seven. Everyone Wants to Be a Millionaire
  pt. THREE UNRAVELING
  Eight. Grief, Arrested
  Nine. Old Songs
  Ten. It's All Over All Over Again
  pt. FOUR RESURRECTION
  Eleven. Life After Death
  Twelve. Orange Menace
  Thirteen. All in the Family
  pt. FIVE PROTEST
  Fourteen. Future Is History
  Fifteen. Budushchego net
  Sixteen. White Ribbons
  Seventeen. Masha: May 6, 2012
  pt. SIX CRACKDOWN
  Eighteen. Seryozha: July 18, 2013
  Nineteen. Lyosha: June 11, 2013
  Twenty. Nation Divided
  Twenty-One. Zhanna: February 27, 2015
  Twenty-Two. Forever War.