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THE FUTURE IS HISTORY

HOW TOTALITARIANISM RECLAIMED RUSSIA

MASHA GESSEN

NEW YORK T/MEiS-BESTS ELLING AUTHOR

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RIVERHEAD BOOKS NEW YORK 2017

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Anna Akhmatova's publishing rights are acquired via FTM Agency, Ltd. , Russia.

Verses from Requiem by Anna Akhmatova are quoted from Anna Akhmatova: Selected Poems Including 'Requiem' by A. S. Kline, translator. Copyright © 2005, 2012. All rights

reserved.

Verses from "Snow-Clad Is the Plain" by Sergey Yesenin are translated from the Russian by

Alec Vagapov.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gessen, Masha, author. Title: The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia / Masha Gessen.

Other titles: How totalitarianism reclaimed Russia. Description: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017. Includes bibliographical references and

index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017014363 (print) | LCCN 2017034714 (ebook) | ISBN 9780698406209

(ebook) | ISBN 9781594634536 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Russia (Federation)-Politics and government—1991- | Russia (Federation) —History—1991- | Moscow Region (Russia)-Intellectual life. | Russia (Federation)—

Biography.

Classification: LCC DK510. 763 (ebook) | LCC DK510. 763 . G48 2017 (print) | DDC 947. 086—

dc23

RIVERHEAD BOOKS An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014

p. cm.

Version 1

IN MEMORY OF SVETLANA BOYM

CONTENTS

Also by Masha Gessen Title Page Copyright Dedication Dramatis Personae Prologue

PART ONE | BORN IN THE USSR

one Born in 1984 two Life, Examined three Privilege four Homo Sovieticus

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