TY - BOOK AU - Gessen,Masha TI - The future is history: how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia SN - 9781783784028 (pbk.) : AV - DK510.23 U1 - 320.947090512 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Granta KW - Totalitarianism KW - Politics and Government KW - ukslc KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Politics and government KW - 21st century KW - Social conditions KW - Social life and customs N1 - Originally published: 2017; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - In 'The Future is History' Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or 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 ER -