masha gessen the future is history review

Resurrection - Life after death - The orange menace - All in the family - Part five. Unraveling - Grief, arrested - Old songs - It's all over all over again - Part four. Revolution - Swan Lake - The execution of the White House - Everyone wants to be a millionaire - Part three. Born in the USSR - Born in 1984 - Life, examined - Privilege - Homo sovieticus - Part two. Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-506) and index. Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.Ĭontents / Notes Bibliography, etc.Physical Description: print xii, 515 pages 24 cm.Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time. 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. 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. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. 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.

Masha gessen the future is history review