Redevelopment into an oppressive state-"similar to Greek mythic Larger-than-life stories of those who have resisted Russia's Gessen builds on her own knowledge of her motherland by telling the
Opportunist like Dugin." FRANCIS FUKUYAMA Was in a deeper analysis of ordinary Putin backers, rather than an The one area where I wish Gessen had spent more time Gradually acquired these characteristics, though in muted and lessĮxtreme forms. "Gessen successfully shows how Putin's Russia has To fortify a budding open society in Russia. In this book not to discuss her own situation or her experiences trying "Gessen was herself one of the hopeful, but she has preferred Seismic changes in their country, while trying to imagine a new The Moscow intelligentsia by one of its own, and Gessen manages to writeĬompellingly about the wonky academic types who tried to understand the Intellectual history of Russia over the past four decades, told throughĪ Tolstoyan gallery of characters. "his is by far Gessen's best book, a sweeping Her ambition has resulted in a harrowing,Ĭompassionate and important book." KEVIN CANFIELD Her analysis of Putin's malevolent administration "Gessen weaves her characters' stories into a seamless, Outsize influence in the modern world, at great human cost." A superb, alarming portrait of a government that exercises "A brilliant if somber look at modern Russia, a failedĭemocracy. Way to trace the gradual rise of totalitarianism-until Russia hasīecome what Gessen terms a "mafia state." Words and life stories that shape this narrative. Psychoanalyst Marina Arutyunyan, and far-right thinker Alexander Dugin.Īs in works by Svetlana Alexievich, it is fairly ordinary people's While these fourĬharacters comprise the bulk of the narrative, Gessen also peppers inįrequent references to three older citizens: sociologist Led Gudkov, Zhanna, the daughter of a murdered opposition leader. Grandson of a Gorbachev-era reformer Masha, whose activism has made herĪ "de facto political prisoner" Lyosha, a gay academic and Russia on the stories of young individuals. THE TOPIC: Gessen focuses this thorough history of post-Soviet Theįuture Is History won the 2017 National Book Award for nonfiction. The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy (*** July/Aug 2015). (2012), Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot (2014), and Include The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin Russian American journalist Masha Gessen's previous books MLA style: "The Future Is History." The Free Library.
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