The Future Is History
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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Winner of the 2017 National Book Award in Nonfiction
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards
Winner of the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award
Named a Best Book of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Paste, and Pop Sugar
The essential journalist and best-selling 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.
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On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured and ultimately charged on 30 federal counts. Yet long after the bombings and the terror they sowed, after all the testimony and debate, what we still haven't learned is why. Why did the American dream go so wrong for two immigrants?
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Worth the time
- De MadeYouLook en 02-08-19
De: Masha Gessen
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Surviving Autocracy
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Donald Trump's speech and behavior, unprecedented in a national candidate. Within 48 hours of Trump's victory, the essay "Autocracy: Rules for Survival" had gone viral, and Gessen's coverage of Trump's norm-smashing presidency became essential reading for a citizenry struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good But . . .
- De A reviewer en 06-02-20
De: Masha Gessen
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The Man Without a Face
- The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to its own people and to the world.
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A Preview of Authoritarianism in the USA
- De Jimmy O en 06-08-19
De: Masha Gessen
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Never Remember
- Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
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The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than half a century after the end of Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag has been barely sketched and the number of its victims remains unknown. Has the Gulag been forgotten? Writer Masha Gessen and photographer Misha Friedman set out across Russia in search of the memory of the Gulag.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a wonderful reminder never to forget
- De Privet en 05-25-19
De: Masha Gessen
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Where the Jews Aren't
- The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan. The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture. By the mid-1930s tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Jewish World of Our Ancestors
- De Roberta L. Ruben en 06-16-18
De: Masha Gessen
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Words Will Break Cement
- The Passion of Pussy Riot
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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The heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies. On February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses, tights, and balaclavas, they performed a “punk prayer” beseeching the “Mother of God” to “get rid of Putin.” They were quickly shut down by security, and in the weeks and months that followed, three of the women were arrested and tried, and two were sentenced to a remote prison colony. But the incident captured international headlines, and footage of it went viral.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Therapy in these authoritarian times
- De Emeri Burks en 08-30-22
De: Masha Gessen
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Putin
- De: Philip Short
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 29 h y 33 m
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Vladimir Putin is the world’s most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbors, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections, and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. His regime is autocratic and deeply corrupt. But that is only half the story. Unflinching, hard-hitting, and objective, Philip Short’s biography gives us the whole tale, up to the present day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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for once a balanced book concerning a world leade
- De robert en 10-06-23
De: Philip Short
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Iron Curtain
- The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
- De: Anne Applebaum
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 26 h y 39 m
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At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In Iron Curtain, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important story, imperfectly executed
- De jackifus en 12-08-12
De: Anne Applebaum
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This Is Not Propaganda
- Adventures in the War Against Reality
- De: Peter Pomerantsev
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia - but the answers he finds there are not what he expected.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Shallow insights with a strong Leftist Bias
- De Larry en 09-22-19
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The New Tsar
- The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
- De: Steven Lee Myers
- Narrado por: René Ruiz
- Duración: 22 h y 55 m
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The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president—the only complete biography in English–that fully captures his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history, by the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A retelling of facts without much added info
- De A. M. en 03-07-16
De: Steven Lee Myers
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All the Kremlin's Men
- Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
- De: Mikhail Zygar
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved. In its place is a weary figurehead buffeted - if not controlled - by the men who at once advise and deceive him. The regional governors and bureaucratic leaders are immovable objects, far more powerful in their fiefdoms than the president himself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enough with the Russian accents!
- De Emma Jane Top en 12-17-17
De: Mikhail Zygar
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Putin's People
- How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
- De: Catherine Belton
- Narrado por: Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
- Duración: 18 h y 12 m
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In Putin’s People, the investigative journalist and former Moscow correspondent Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and the small group of KGB men surrounding him rose to power and looted their country. Delving deep into the workings of Putin’s Kremlin, Belton accesses key inside players to reveal how Putin replaced the freewheeling tycoons of the Yeltsin era with a new generation of loyal oligarchs, who in turn subverted Russia’s economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very good
- De K en 07-15-20
De: Catherine Belton
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How to Stop Fascism
- History, Ideology, Resistance
- De: Paul Mason
- Narrado por: Paul Mason
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again - and we need to find a better way to fight it. In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential
- De John Andrew de Oliveira Harris en 11-04-22
De: Paul Mason
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The Road to Unfreedom
- Russia, Europe, America
- De: Timothy Snyder
- Narrado por: Timothy Snyder
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of power. In the last six years, it has creeped from east to west as nationalism inflames Europe, abetted by Russian propaganda and cyberwarfare.
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A Key Understanding of Modern Politics
- De Richard Keohane en 04-08-18
De: Timothy Snyder
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Twilight of Democracy
- The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
- De: Anne Applebaum
- Narrado por: Anne Applebaum
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
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From the United States and Britain to continental Europe and beyond, liberal democracy is under siege, while authoritarianism is on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy, Anne Applebaum, an award-winning historian of Soviet atrocities who was one of the first American journalists to raise an alarm about antidemocratic trends in the West, explains the lure of nationalism and autocracy. In this captivating essay, she contends that political systems with radically simple beliefs are inherently appealing, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else.
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Modern Dictators & President who wants to be them
- De AJ en 07-23-20
De: Anne Applebaum
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How to Win an Information War
- The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
- De: Peter Pomerantsev
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 8 h y 23 m
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In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, crowing victory and smearing his enemies as liars and manipulators over his frequent radio speeches, blasted out on loudspeakers and into homes. British claims that Hitler was dangerous had little impact against this wave of disinformation. Except for the broadcasts of someone called Der Chef, a German who questioned Nazi doctrine, and most importantly, a character created by the British propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer, a unique weapon in the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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fascinating story
- De Mark en 03-19-24
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Putin's Wars
- From Chechnya to Ukraine
- De: Mark Galeotti
- Narrado por: David Sibley
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
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Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine itself. But it also looks more broadly at Putin's recreation of Russian military power and its expansion to include a range of new capabilities, from mercenaries to operatives in a relentless information war against Western powers.
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Botched Attempt on Russian Stress
- De Alexey B. en 12-20-22
De: Mark Galeotti
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War and Punishment
- Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- De: Mikhail Zygar
- Narrado por: Richard Attlee
- Duración: 15 h y 47 m
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As soon as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar circulated a Facebook petition signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others. That act led to a new law in Russia criminalizing criticism of the war, and Zygar fled Russia. In his time as a journalist, Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players—from politicians to oligarchs.
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Remarkable review of a terrible situation.
- De Philip J. Kurle en 09-15-23
De: Mikhail Zygar
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- James Messelbeck
- 04-10-18
My study of Russia was incomplete until this book
Learned much of current double-think attitudes of Russian people today and why it will take generations to erode its seductive qualities
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- caspar
- 12-13-23
Great, but hard to follow for a novice
Going myself struggling to keep up. Well written and super interesting, though tough read for someone like me who isn't well versed in either Russian history or sociology
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- Kevin
- 11-01-18
Absolutely brilliant
The best book I listened to all year. Not only is Masha Gessen a talented reporter, she is also a top notch political theorist. Her philosophical analysis and historical insight are coupled with the incredible true stories of real Russian citizens. Her narration is also well done and a delight to listen to. You won't be disappointed
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-06-19
More From a Great Russia Scholar and Storyteller
Answers so many questions about modern Russia and
paints the context picture in wonderful detail.
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- Mitchell
- 08-21-18
Great Insight Into Modern Russia
Great listen; highly recommended insight into the modern state of Russian politics and society. It's quite troubling, to say the least.
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- Jeff
- 02-10-18
Gessen humanizes modern Russians
A human history of post Soviet Union Russia told through the intimate coming of age stories of seven Russian youths. Though her characters are real the telling of their stories reads more like a great Russian novel. Brilliant work of history, psychology, and, sadly, effective statecraft.
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- Bowie
- 02-08-18
Solid Perspective on a relevant topic
Adds to the Putin hates the Clinton story and why Trump.
There's value in looking a bit deeper into the current Russian politics and events from a Russian perspective. Enjoyed the time spent.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-27-17
Good read.
I really enjoyed this book but something about the narration made this book seem harder to follow than I expected. Perhaps I need to see Russian names as I hear them?
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- Burrhead
- 04-30-22
Ms Gessen is my special favorite author
I am a special fan of all Marsha’s work.
A great American with a great Russian heritage.
Thank you for all your story.
Welcome to America.
Gordon Flygare
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- Mike
- 06-10-22
The Marriage of Depth and Detail
The author does a great job covering Russian politics and Russian characters from the end of the Soviet Union to around 2015. They do a great job of giving detail of life through the lens of modern-day Russia.
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