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The Future Is History
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The Future Is History

How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

by Masha Gessen

Recommended by Tom Hanks and Erika Hall

Recommended by Tom Hanks and Erika Hall

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Politics, History, and Social Sciences.

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARDNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP ...

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Politics, History, and Social Sciences.

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Tom Hanks

I recommend reading all of Masha Gessen's stuff. There's a bit in The Future is History that explains how the lack of legitimate social science under the Soviet regime made it impossible to build democratic institutions after the fall.

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