Masha Gessen - Jövőnk a past

The 100-year-old homo sovieticus is unique in the world. This is where he left the Soviet Union, and he also defines the modern history of Russia. Masha Gessen, a journalist who was born in Moscow and emigrated to the United States with her mother as a teenager, then returned home after hearing about the reforms, did not want to believe that apart from the past and the present, even the future belongs to homo sovieticus. He belongs to the type of man who rose from the ashes of Russian history. Totalitarianism buried Russia.
The secret of Masha Gessen's world-famous book: the feelings of life filtered through scientific analysis and the destinies closely followed. The family history of the characters brings the Stalin era as close to life as the Gorbachev or Yeltsin era. We see and experience how grandmothers raise their grandchildren, how their children wander through the labyrinths of the Soviet past and the Russian present in order to step on firm ground, but there is no firm ground and no good direction - the grandparents trod the same path that Putin's generation eventually follows. However, the possibility that the Gorbachev and Yeltsin generations could embark on a new path is glimmering.

According to the author's critics, "the last forty years of Russia's history are interpreted by an intellectual with a very sharp mind - displaying a gallery of Tolstoyan characters".