Necessary reading for anyone trying to understand the earthshaking events of our time: how in one country after another individual aspirations for wealth and power mutated into collective cravings for strongmen." - Pankaj Mishra, author of An End to Suffering and Age of Anger "A fine example of journalism approximating art. At this particular historical moment, when we must understand Russia to understand ourselves, we are all very lucky to have her." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
"Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest. A worthwhile read that describes how Putin's powerful grip on Russia developed, offering a dire warning of how other nations could fall under a similar spell of state control." - Library Journal a well-crafted, inventive narrative." - Publisher's Weekly "An intimate look at Russia in the post-Soviet period, when the public's hopes for democracy devolved within a restricted society characterized by 'a constant state of low-level dread'.
A superb, alarming portrait of a government that exercises outsize influence in the modern world, at great human cost." - Kirkus A devastating, timely, and necessary reminder of the fragility and preciousness of all institutions of freedom." - Booklist 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. Putin's bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.
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