The Future Is History
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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Masha Gessen follows several lives across the Soviet collapse and the consolidation of contemporary Russian authoritarianism, linking private experience with institutions and political culture.
The book carries the path from the Soviet inheritance into post-Soviet identity, power, and the return of coercive rule.
Why I include it
Use this as the bridge between Soviet memory and contemporary Russia, then compare its argument with Alexievich's many-voiced oral history.
