How long does it take to read The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia?
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen takes about 9 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2017. 536 pages, about 147,400 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Journalist Masha Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. 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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Intellectual life, Biography, History, Totalitarianism, Russia (federation), social conditions
