The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Length
- ≈ 515 pages
- Reading time
- 13–18 hours
- ISBN
- 159463453X
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians born in the early 1980s, just as the Soviet Union was beginning to open up. The book traces their coming of age from the hopeful high point of reform to the return of authoritarian rule under Vladimir Putin. Gessen argues that Russian society suffers from what she calls recurrent totalitarianism.
Source: National Book Foundation: The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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