Summary: <a href="https://twitter.com/mashagessen">Masha Gessen</a> returns to The Gist, this time to talk about her latest work, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/159463453X/?tag=slatmaga-20"><em>The Future Is History</em></a><em>. </em>Gessen uses the book to examine the ways in which post-Soviet Russia failed to process the traumas of totalitarianism. In failing to reckon with its past, did Russia doom itself to a bleak future? <br>In the Spiel, the dearth of details in the Trump administration’s tax plan.
