Her own mother had gone to church, and had had her baptized.
Until recently, Galina Vasi lyevna had not given religion much thought.
They were old-fifty-five was the retirement age for Soviet women, and you could hardly have found a fifty-five-year-old who was not yet a grandmother-but not so old that they remembered a time when religion was practiced openly and proudly in Russia. Her grandmother Galina Vasi lyevna was fifty-five, which made her roughly the age of most of the grown-ups. Masha was three and a half years old, which made her roughly three years older than all the other children in the church that day. John the Warrior in Central Moscow to be baptized. On the seventieth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Masha’s grandmother, a rocket scientist, took Masha to the Church of St. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time. 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. 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.
In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Īward-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled.
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