The Future Is History

Poŝlibro, 544 paĝoj

Eldonita je 2-a de oktobro 2018 de Riverhead Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-59463-454-3

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Journalist Masha Gessen 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.

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kravietz@bookwyrm.social recenzis The future is history de Masha Gessen

A rather depressing account of Russia slipping from one totalitarian system right into another

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A rather depressing account of Russia slipping from one totalitarian system right into another. Great book for anyone interested in the Soviet and Russia's modern history as it contains tons of references to political events, speeches and personal impressions of the discussed events. It also reads very lightly as it's written as a rather unique record of lives of a few real people (some of them quite well known), following them from childhood in Soviet times, 1990's, beginning of Putin's rule and then ultimately the first war in Ukraine and rapid acceleration of repressions against civil society in Russia.