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The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner) How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

The book was described as the most helpful account of recent Russian history and its current political narrative.

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I recently read Masha Gessen's book The Future is History it's the most helpful account I've seen of what happened in Russia and why Russia is now the way it is and it's built out of narratives of peo...

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The book was described as the most helpful account of recent Russian history and its current political narrative.

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I recently read Masha Gessen's book The Future is History it's the most helpful account I've seen of what happened in Russia and why Russia is now the way it is and it's built out of narratives of people who are about our age.

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Gessen's awardwinning book on how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia was highlighted as both essential reading and a model for understanding current events.

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the national book award winning The Future is History, How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which I cannot recommend more highly

part of what I try to think through in The Future is History is the impossibility of knowing what people think in a totalitarian society

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Ezra Klein said the guest had written remarkable books like The Future Is History about living under Vladimir Putin.

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My guest today is Masha Gessen, who grew up in the Soviet Union ... has written remarkable books like The Future is History about living under Vladimir Putin

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Ezra Klein noted that Gessen had written this book about life under Vladimir Putin, highlighting its relevance to the discussion.

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has written remarkable books like The Future is History about living under Vladimir Putin

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Stay Tuned with Preet

It was discussed in the context of a sociological study about the 'Soviet person' and how totalitarian adaptations have persisted throughout generations in Russia, despite the fall of the Soviet Union.

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russia never fully made the choice to break with its past There was never an investigation and reckoning with state terror people who were engaged in state terror were never officially disavowed They...

— Episode: Unpacking The Russian Threat (with Masha...

Episode: Unpacking The Russian Threat (with Masha Gessen)

It was discussed in the context of a sociological study about the 'Soviet person' and how totalitarian adaptations have persisted throughout generations in Russia, despite the fall of the Soviet Union.

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russia never fully made the choice to break with its past There was never an investigation and reckoning with state terror people who were engaged in state terror were never officially disavowed They were even allowed to continue to serve in high state offices

Essentially the same people who are running the soviet union Are running what we refer to as post-soviet russia?

putin has an idea It is self-aggrandizing and absurd on the face of it that if he stepped away Russia would fall apart And so he has to carry this burden and for his labors he deserves to have the yachts and the palaces and all that But he is doing it for his country

trump doesn't even have that delusion It's all power and money in their purest form And you could dig as deep as you want. You would never find a shred of responsibility

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