‘The Future Is History' in Russia

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 26, 2018

Masha Gessen, staff writer at The New Yorker, visiting professor at Amherst College, winner of the 2017 National Book Award, and author of The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Riverhead Books, 2017), talks about her book, which traces the lives of four people growing up in post-Soviet Russia and follows the nation's democratic potential and fall towards autocracy.

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