The Future is History
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or 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 not only against the machinations of the regime that would seek to crush them all (censorship, intimidation, violence) but also against the war it waged on understanding itself, ensuring the unobstructed emergence of…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78378-402-8
- EAN: 9781783784028
- Produktnummer: 25815631
- Verlag: Granta Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.8 cm x D3.5 cm 361 g
- Gewicht: 361
Über den Autor
Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of several books including Blood Matters and The Man Without a Face, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012. She has contributed to the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. She has been described as Russia's leading LGBT rights activist, and served as a member of the board of directors for the Moscow-based LGBT rights organization Triangle from 1993 to 1998. She lives in Moscow.
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