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

By:

Gessen, Masha, 1967-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018Edition: First Riverhead trade paperback editionDescription: xvi, 522 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9781594634543
1594634548

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Future is historyDDC classification:

947.086

LOC classification:

338 DK 510.763 G392f 2018

Contents:

Part one. Born in the USSR Born in 1984 Life, examined Privilege Homo sovieticus Part two. Revolution Swan Lake The execution of the White House Everyone wants to be a millionaire Part three. Unraveling Grief, arrested Old songs It's all over all over again Part four. Resurrection Life after death The orange menace All in the family Part five. Protest The future is history Budushchego net White ribbons Masha: May 6, 2012 Part six. Crackdown Seryozha: July 18, 2013 Lyosha: June 11, 2013 A nation divided Zhanna: February 27, 2015 Forever war

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.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Recursos Regionales	Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso)	338 DK 510.763 G392f 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000121250

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one. Born in the USSR
Born in 1984
Life, examined
Privilege
Homo sovieticus
Part two. Revolution
Swan Lake
The execution of the White House
Everyone wants to be a millionaire
Part three. Unraveling
Grief, arrested
Old songs
It's all over all over again
Part four. Resurrection
Life after death
The orange menace
All in the family
Part five. Protest
The future is history
Budushchego net
White ribbons
Masha: May 6, 2012
Part six. Crackdown
Seryozha: July 18, 2013
Lyosha: June 11, 2013
A nation divided
Zhanna: February 27, 2015
Forever war

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.

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