Masha Gessen
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"Putin's bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia" by the Wall Street Journal, award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the...
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"An analysis of the destruction the Trump administration has waged on our institutions, the cultural norms we hoped would save us, and our very sense of identity"--
In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the ominous significance of Donald Trump's speech and behavior, unprecedented in a national candidate. Within forty-eight hours of his victory, the essay "Autocracy: Rules for Survival"...
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A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russia's past--and present. The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than half a century after the end of Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag has been barely sketched and the number of its victims remains unknown. Has the Gulag been forgotten? Writer Masha Gessen and photographer Misha Friedman set out across...
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A gripping and tragic tale that sheds rare light on the unique burden of genius
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved the Poincare Conjecture, an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. A prize of one million dollars was offered to anyone who could unravel it, but Perelman declined the winnings, and in doing so inspired journalist Masha Gessen to tell his story. Drawing...
5) Where the Jews aren't: the sad and absurd story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish autonomous region
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"In 1929, the Soviet Union declared the area of Birobidzhan a homeland for Jews. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, tens of thousands of Jews moved to Birobidzhan, chased from the shtetl by poverty, hunger, and fear. Birobidzhan was written about breathlessly by a small group of intellectuals who envisioned a home built by Jews for Jews--a place where Jews worked the land and where Yiddish would become the common language of a post-oppression Jewish...
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Durante las últimas décadas hemos asistido a la muerte de una democracia que nunca llegó a serlo.
Los ciudadanos rusos han estado perdiendo derechos y libertades y, desde 2012, han sufrido una represión política abierta. Mientras, en el exterior, Rusia se embarcaba en nuevos conflictos.
¿Cómo ha ocurrido esto? ¿Qué ha pasado desde que se desplomó la URSS?
Para reconstruir la Rusia actual Masha Gessen se centra en las historias concretas...
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Eran las elecciones de 2016 y el discurso, los gestos y los comentarios de uno de los candidatos a la presidencia de Estados Unidos no tenían precedente alguno. Cuarenta y ocho horas antes de que Donald Trump fuese elegido como presidente de Estados Unidos, el ensayo "Autocracia: reglas para la supervivencia", de Masha Gessen, se volvió viral. Hoy ese ensayo, ampliado y matizado, es este libro.
Gessen aporta aquí una perspectiva inigualable, herencia...
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"In 1999, the "Family" surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly unpopular president. Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience--he'd been deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, and briefly, director of the secret police--nevertheless seemed the perfect choice: a "faceless" creature whom Yeltsin and his cronies could mold in their own image. Russia and an infatuated West were determined...
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The facts of the tragedy are established: On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs fashioned from pressure cookers exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding 264 others. Masha Gessen explains who the brothers were and how they came to do what they appear to have done.
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Riverhead Books
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2014.
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Drawing on access to the band's members and their families and associates, recreates the feminist punk activists' fierce act of political confrontation in Moscow, which made national headlines as they were punished for their act of defiance.
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Nextbook/Schocken
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[2016]
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"The story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia as told through the strange history of the Soviet solution to the Jewish question. In 1929, the Soviet Union declared the area of Birobidzhan a homeland for Jews. In the late 1920s and early 19302, tens of thousands of Jews moved to Birobidzhan, chased from the shtetl by poverty, hunger, and fear. Birobidzhan was written about breathlessly by a small group of intellectuals who envisioned a home built...