Pre-Owned The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover) by Masha Gessen

from Farree

Okay. So here is a book I first heard about on NPR. It sounded so interesting that I suggested that my local library get a copy, and they did! This reads almost like Solzhenitsyn did in the early 1970s, in terms what the heck is actually going on in Russia, Ukraine, Chechnya, etcetera these days....

from dwhatson

Through the lives of four of its citizens, Masha Gessen shows the reader the political morphing of modern Russia. The book begins with the fall of the Soviet Bloc, meanders through the country's brief flirtation with a more liberal political system before finally falling into step with the totali...

from Schmerguls

5550. The Future Is History How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. by Masha Gessen (read 11 Apr 2018) (National Book Award nonfiction prize in 2017) This is the 38th National Book Award nonfiction prizewinner I have read. It tells the sad story of how Russia under Putin has reverted to totalitaria...

from tuckerresearch

A decent sort of history of Russia from the end of Communism through Yeltsin to Putin and dictatorship through the lens of seven people of various backgrounds. It is journalistic in tone for some parts, biographical in others, and historical in other parts. Gessen explains various aspects of Russ...

from tuckerresearch

A decent sort of history of Russia from the end of Communism through Yeltsin to Putin and dictatorship through the lens of seven people of various backgrounds. It is journalistic in tone for some parts, biographical in others, and historical in other parts. Gessen explains various aspects of Russ...