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National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2017
Putin's best-selling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Â
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 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 not only against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all but also against the war it waged on understanding itself, ensuring the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state.Â
Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.Â
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I enjoyed reading this book if you can apply world "enjoy" in the case study of totalitarian goverment. This book is very well written. I love the masterful combination of personal stories and socio-political framing. I grew up in USSR and moved to US in early 90s and this book spoke to me. The author does excellent job portraying Soviet and post Soviet world and people in all of it sad and at times gruesome glory.I think for many readers this book will provide deep understanding of why Russia is what it is now and why Putin is is popular. It is also a lesson to all of us on how democracy can slip right thought our fingers.
When I looked up “The Future Is History†on Amazon and saw the 1-star reviews left by obvious trolls, I just *knew* this book had to be dangerously good. So I bought it immediately. I had read several of Gessen's meticulous and eye-opening New Yorker pieces, but this book takes it to a whole new level.Gessen tells the story through seven dramatis personae, each “both ‘regular’, in that their experiences exemplified the experiences of millions of others, and extraordinary: intelligent, passionate, introspective, able to tell their stories vividly.†They give first-person accounts of the everyday ordeal of surviving true to oneself in Russia. Like Zhanna, daughter of popular opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and activist in her own right, whose life demonstrates some of the consequences of opposing the regime -- like exile, incarceration and murder. The story of Masha the journalist illustrates the perils of truthtelling. Pioneering psychotherapist Marina Arutyunyan tries to shepherd modern mental health to Russia through lacerating thickets of state-mandated ideology. Openly gay Lyosha tries to advocate for oppressed minorities without getting fired from his precarious university post.Through the lives of the protagonists, Gessen weaves the last century of Russian history. Stalin’s self-cannibalizing reign of terror is particularly chilling: “Stalin’s terror machine executed its executioners at regular intervals. In 1938 alone, forty-two thousand investigators who had taken part in the great industrial-scale purges were executed, as was the chief of the secret police, Nikolai Yezhov.†Stalin once invited an old friend from Georgia to Moscow for a reunion, and after lavishly wining and dining him, had him executed before dawn: “This could not be explained with any words or ideas available to man.â€And that is the most astonishing aspect of this book: it is not fiction. The protagonists’ experiences are so logic-defying, so disheartening, and such violations of basic human decency as to exist in a separate universe that no novelist could concoct. And yet, this universe has an internal logic. Perhaps it's best explained through Hannah Arendt, whose three-volume “Origins of Totalitarianism†Gessen deftly scrunches down to a few essential paragraphs: “What distinguishes a totalitarian ideology is its utterly insular quality. It purports to explain the entire world and everything in it. There is no gap between totalitarian ideology and reality because totalitarian ideology contains all of reality within itself.â€And yet, the book reads like a novel, which is why I don’t want to give away too much. Who is Homo sovieticus? For whom do Russians vote in the “Greatest Russian Ever†(aka “Name of Russiaâ€) contest year after year? What’s going to happen to Boris Nemtsov after he defies Putin? Do our heroes avoid getting beat up and arrested at the demonstrations? Why is Putin so popular in Russia?One pervasive theme of the book is the hegemony of doublethink over the Russian psyche. Coined by Orwell in “1984â€, doublethink is the necessity of maintaining two contradictory beliefs for survival, e.g. publicly supporting the government ideology while knowing that it oppresses your very existence.This is some crazy-making stuff that Russians seem to have been put through for over a century. And yet, there are still people who fight for truth, healing, and freedom. Over and over, they rise to attend banned protests very likely to land them in jail (or worse). Their stories of stupendous bravery and selflessness consistently inspire.And lest you as a Westerner think that you’re somehow safe because, oh, this is something happening elsewhere, please note that the recent rise of authoritarianism in countries like America takes its playbook straight out of Russia. Attacks on the press, construction of alternate realities, propagation of fake news, persecution of minorities, and the shameless grabbing of executive power: it’s all happening right now.And you know what else? We’ve seen it all before: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao. So don’t read this book just because it’s a riveting account of life in what’s still an undiscovered continent for most Westerners. Don’t read it just because it’s a tour de force of journalistic craft and bravery. Read it because it also informs your life as an American, German, Frenchman, Hungarian, or anyone who values the freedom of human life and ideas. Read it so that you may be impelled to take action.-- Ali Binazir, M.D., M.Phil., author & public speaking trainerPS: Congratulations to Masha Gessen for winning the National Book Award. Thoroughly deserved.
It’s a terrifying and essential book - even if you already know the story or parts of it - because it reads like a funerary oration for one's country. It acknowledges the late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russia’s life and struggle, and then ends with a nearly uniform conclusion from all of its subjects - “there is no futureâ€, and with their attempts (successful or not) to escape or shield themselves from the growing totalitarian haze.The Future is History does a very important thing - it tells people's stories. Gessen has the clear-cut eloquence to preserve those stories' voice and weave them into a larger political narrative. I appreciate the focus on people's perception of themselves within the country, and on the shaping of their memories - and the bold incorporation of trauma frameworks to articulate the historical experience. The book is a very earnest, ethically driven, intellectual, and somehow unavoidably personal attempt to understand what happened to Russia - and to articulate that understanding.The Future Is History without doubt becomes one of the most excellent and important books on contemporary Russia.My issue is the scope of Gessen's interviews. They are seven people - a sociologist, a historian, a psychologist, and the rest are participants and witnesses of their times. But six out of seven are Moscovites. And seven out of seven hold university degrees. Six out of seven were born into intelligentsia. Two out of seven come from prominent political families. And while those are the people who are most visible - due to their location and privileged background - and active in the story that Gessen is telling, they do not have to consume the central spot within it. What happened to Russia is not solely what happened to academics' kids in Moscow.
Masha’s work on the fall of democracy in Russia is arresting. The focus on Homo soveticus in the early chapters portends how historical injustices persevere through succeeding generations. The failings of Boris Yeltsin shine through, and the disturbing rise of Vladimir Putin is written with an appropriate sense of mourning for what comes.While non-fiction, it is not written as non-fiction. We live the lives of Masha’s interviewees in her elegant prose. For much of the book (90’s and 00’s) we can almost relate to their aspirations. As Putin’s second time in power (in name) begins in 2012, we see authoritarianism fall across Russia like a blanket. The violence against LGBT people and the political assassinations are not just abstract events helping elsewhere, they happen to people we know through the text.Russia’s story isn’t just disaster tourism - events in China, the EU, and even the USA demand that this book be taken seriously. Anyone who believes it can’t happen here, wherever here may be, needs to read the last chapters where the pace of democratic collapse is as dumbfounding to Russians as it is to readers.
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