# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Masha Gessen - Politics of the Past, Politics of the Future
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: “An indispensable voice of and for this moment.” – Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny)

“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” The New York Times Book Review

One of our most incisive observers of democracy, Masha Gessen is the author of 11 books, including the National Book Award-winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. Gessen examines how autocracies “other” vulnerable groups, tracing this tactic in Putin’s Russia and its personal consequences, which caused Gessen to flee to the U.S. a decade ago. Today, Gessen draws a clear throughline to similar currents here. As contemporary autocrats promise a return to an imaginary, safer past, Gessen argues that the antidote to the politics of the past is an inspiring politics of the future. What might that future be, and can we see its early outlines if we look closely?

Books will be available for purchase and signing, courtesy of Chaucer’s Books
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/santa-barbara/masha-gessen-politics-of-the-past-politics-of-the-future/200029505111528
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 2

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Santa Barbara
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Campbell Hall, UCSB
- **lat**: 34.416315829136
- **long**: -119.84539626913
- **full address**: Campbell Hall, UCSB, Campbell Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Masha Gessen - Politics of the Past, Politics of the Future being held?
  - **A:** Masha Gessen - Politics of the Past, Politics of the Future takes place on Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Campbell Hall, UCSB, Campbell Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Masha Gessen - Politics of the Past, Politics of the Future?
  - **A:** Masha Gessen - Politics of the Past, Politics of the Future is organized by UCSB Arts & Lectures.

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