TY - BOOK ID - 67176628 TI - The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia PY - 2017 SN - 9781783784004 1783784008 PB - London: Granta, DB - UniCat KW - Totalitarianism KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Moscow Region (Russia) KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Social life and customs KW - History KW - Intellectual life. KW - RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT KW - RUSSIA (FEDERATION)--HISTORY KW - Russia (Federation) - Politics and government - 21st century KW - Russia (Federation) - Social conditions - 21st century KW - Russia (Federation) - Social life and customs - 21st century KW - Russia (Federation) - Politics and government - 1991 KW - -Russia (Federation) - History - 1991 KW - -Moscow Region (Russia) - Intellectual life. KW - Russia (Federation) - Biography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67176628 AB - The author follows here the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and 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. The author charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, this is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time. ER -