Lyosha is the brilliant gay student from Perm who struggles in a homophobic society yet finds grudging (and temporary) acceptance in academe as director of a gender studies program. You may like: 'Why Buddhism is True,' and achieving a 'different state of mind' at the Kentucky Author Forum Seryozha is disgusted with the irrationality of Russian law and politics, but has no taste for revolution. Seryozha also hails from the elite - he is grandson of Alexander Yakovlev, a close friend of Gorbachev’s and the intellectual force behind perestroika and glasnost. We follow Zhanna Nemtsova, daughter of former governor of Nizhny Novgorod and political activist Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down outside the Kremlin in 2015, as she accumulates wealth in the roaring 2000s, only to see her fortune dissolve in the crisis of 2008. She will be interviewed by Clarissa Ward, Senior International Correspondent, CNNl. 19, Gessen will be the guest of the University of Louisville’s Kentucky Author Forum at the Kentucky Center’s Bomhard Theater. We see the past quarter-century through the stories of four young people born in the 1980s, when Mikhail Gorbachev started reforms that would bring down the Soviet Union. Masha Gessen’s latest book, "The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia" (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), is a pointillist portrait of Russia, colorful dots that seem disconnected but which come together to form a distinct image of post-communist Russia.
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