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The Future Is History
by Masha Gessen
Russia's return to totalitarianism told through four young people born in the 1980s and three intellectuals. National Book Award winner.
Read it if…
you want Putin's Russia from the ground.
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Skip it if…
you want a Kremlin-centered history.
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Three things you will actually use
- Freedom can be unlearned.
- Homo sovieticus persisted.
- Watch the young.
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Read the chapters on the 1990s.
Our verdict
Gessen's Russia.
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