Masha Gessen is an award-winning author and a staff writer at The New Yorker. She speaks to Sally Warhaft about The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, her non-fiction 2017 National Book Award-winning work that charts the coming-of-age of four Russians born in the early 1980s.

Masha Gessen and Sally Warhaft, live at Deakin Edge, Federation Square — Photo: Sophie Quick

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