Bibliograph

The future is history, how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia, Masha Gessen

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Label

The future is history, how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia, Masha Gessen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-506) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The future is history

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

978889510

Responsibility statement

Masha Gessen

Sub title

how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia

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<U+2014>as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings

Table Of 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, 20112 -- Part six. Crackdown -- Seryozha: July 18, 2013 -- Lyosha: June 11, 2013 -- A nation divided -- Zhanna: February 27, 2015 -- Forever war

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

How totalitarianism retook Russia

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