The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)
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The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner) by Masha Gessen
WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITINGWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD
The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.
Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, 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. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and the author of several books, including The Man Without a Face, a national success. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Newsweek, Slate, and a variety of other magazines, and she has won multiple accolades, including the 2013 Media for Liberty Award. She has worked as an editor for a number of periodicals as well as the director of Radio Liberty's Moscow Service. She is based in Moscow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594634543 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594634548 |
| Title | The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner) |
| Author | Masha Gessen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2018-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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