![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers gain a deeply personal view into “what it has felt like to live in Russia”-Lyosha, for instance, has had to grapple with media that “equated pedophilia and sexual violence with homosexuality”-and are presented with unique perspectives on the country during “the privations of the 1980s, the fears of the 1990s, and. Three other figures also make regular appearances: psychoanalyst Marina Arutyunyan, sociologist Led Gudkov, and far-right ideologue Alexander Dugin. ![]() Gessen ( The Brothers), the esteemed Russian-American journalist, takes an intimate look at Russia in the post-Soviet period, when the public’s hopes for democracy devolved within a restricted society characterized by “a constant state of low-level dread.” She structures the book around the experiences of four principal individuals who came of age in the aftermath of the U.S.S.R.’s collapse: Masha, whose activism led her to become a “de facto political prisoner” Seryozha, the grandson of Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, the politician who spearheaded the reforms of the Gorbachev era Lyosha, a homosexual academic in a homophobic society and Zhanna, the daughter of murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. ![]()
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