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The fundamental journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the about The Future Is Background: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia space of the 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 which have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE Is History, Gessen comes after the lives of four people given birth to at what promised to end up being the dawn of democracy. All of them came old with unprecedented goals, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own–as business owners, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and sociable beings.

Gessen charts their paths against the machinations from the regime that could crush all of them, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which made certain the unobstructed reemergence from the old Soviet order by means of today’s terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and immediate, The Future Is usually History is normally a cautionary tale for our period and forever.