"The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia" with Masha Gessen

Harvard Book Store and Mass Humanities welcome award-winning journalist Masha Gessen. 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. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, talks with Gessen about Russia's history, identity narrative, and the current political climate.
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[@blisspop6193]

What we learn from history is that we don't learn from history! 😥

[@vinzholton]

Good job Masha!

[@neilhasid3407]

Brilliant talk.

[@arthurdont1478]

Masha, do you have anything to say about a rise of totalitarianism in China?

[@CrazyLeiFeng]

Russia is a country with unpredictible past

[@robertshonk518]

Google closed caption: "rabid Putinite" = "rabbit poo tonight"

[@sot11cat]

6 years later: things are *10 times worse for both russia itself and most of its neighbours.

[@seanmoran2743]

Putin isn’t Lenin 🙄

[@arthurdont1478]

Masha, you know that Russia was close to democracy in 90-s, but American friends took advantage and bought Yeltsin another term in the office, democracy in Russia was killed with a help from the White House; Russians still remember how terrible was live in 90-s, how many young soldiers were killed in Chechnya because of an incompetence of the central democratic government in Moscow. Do you remember Beslan, Budennovsk, Dubrovka Theater in Moscow?

[@erik_carter_art]

The host is practically holding the microphone in the opposite direction of her mouth...

[@emilykrahn3185]

Thank you very interesting

[@mudchair16]

Projecting.

[@monicaalvaradogrijalva8533]

Masha Gessen excellent as always! Very poor traduccion.

[@warreng3813]

Ah, the Hegelian Dialectic is strong in this one.

[@brandgardner211]

Poisonous little lesbian.

[@andreneto7898]

try vanezuela in the next book, or maybe cuba, china ... this is not journalism.