Russian Journalist Masha Gessen Talks Putin and Trump

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🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Russian-American Journalist and winner of the National Book Award, Masha Gessen shares her perspective on Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and the societies they lead, including the sexual harassment moment in the United States. She discusses her new book, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, now a National Book Award Winner.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the President.
0:03.6	Meet the President.
0:04.6	Meet the President.
0:06.7	Meet the President.
0:09.9	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:12.6	I'm Chuck Todd.
0:14.2	Developments in the Russia investigation and what seem to be the President's efforts to
0:18.0	distract from them, continue to be a dominant theme in the news, and then some.
0:23.1	Masha Gessen, a prominent Russian American journalist, joins me today to talk about the
0:26.9	President's behavior in the context of her new book, The Future Is History, How Totalitarianism
0:32.8	Re-claimed Russia.
0:34.8	And she tells this story through the lies of four millennials that she tracks in her
0:38.7	native countries, Return to Totalitarian Rule from the Brink of Democracy.
0:44.8	Masha, welcome to 1947 and congratulations on having a National Book Award big deal.
0:52.4	Thank you.
0:53.9	So let's start with the book premise itself.
0:57.3	Obviously you're trying to show the change in Russia.
1:03.0	You did it through millennials, why?
1:05.0	Well, I wouldn't actually call them millennials.
1:09.0	I think that's an American term.
1:11.0	It's my third one.
1:12.0	Let's just call them people born in the 1980s.
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