His research interests include political economics, development, and economic theory. She lives in New York.Ībout the interlocutor: Konstantin Sonin is John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, Slate, and many other publications, and she has received many awards, including a Carnegie fellowship.

Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.Ībout the author: Masha Gessen is an award-winning Russian-American journalist who is the author of several books, including the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. 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. Gessen 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. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. RSVP HERE (Please note that your RSVP is requested, not required)Ībout the book: Putin’s bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her “fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia” (The Wall Street Journal), award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. Presented in partnership with CEERES, the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago.

She will be joined in conversation by Konstantin Sonin. 'Powerful and gracefully written.' -The San Francisco ChronicleĬEERES of Voices presents Masha Gessen on The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. Fascinating, hard-hitting reading.' -Foreign Affairs ' shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin's story. unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia.' -The Wall Street Journal

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