5/30/2023 0 Comments The future is history mashaIndeed, Russia continues to dominate the headlines the specter of its meddling in the 2016 presidential elections lingers, ever threatening to tip us into a frosty era in which "an information war is waged against Western democracy as a concept and a reality."īut Western democracy, which is itself embattled in America, is not exactly Gessen's main focus - rather it is democracy unrealized and undesired in post-Communist Russia it is its eventual, unconscionable death. No doubt, Gessen's "The Future Is History," arrives at an opportune time - a time, she writes, when Russia has "reclaimed the role of evil and existentialist threat in America." Even the subtitle, "How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia," sends an urgent, alarming message to the world. Its cover - a black-and-white photograph of a woman sitting inside what appears to be a booth, her face partly obscured by an intercom - gives off a foreboding air. Masha Gessen's latest book about modern-day Russia, which comes in at more than 500 pages, is unapologetically loud, a protest against complacency.
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