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Das ist neu in Russland: Hunderttausende gehen gegen die gefälschten Wahlen auf die Straße. Ihr Protest richtet sich gegen den Mann, der hinter der Fassade der Demokratie das alleinige Sagen hat: Wladimir Putin. Masha Gessen entlarvt den unscheinbaren Mann ohne Gesicht als das, was er wirklich ist: ein skrupelloser Machthaber, umgeben von Korruption und Terror.

National Book Award winner Masha Gessen's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power. “In a country where journalists critical of the government have a way of meeting untimely deaths, Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinching indictment of...

WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE...

National Book Award winner Masha Gessen tells an important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more...

“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times “A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling...

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by critically acclaimed author of The Future Is History and How to Survive Totalitarianism and New York Times columnist, M. Gessen. The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short...

"A book that belongs on the shelf alongside The Gulag Archipelago. -- Kirkus Reviews "A short, haunting and beautifully written book." -- The Wall Street Journal The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than...

La fascinante historia de cómo Vladímir Putin, un agente mediocre del KGB, llegó a la presidencia de Rusia, deshizo años de avances y convirtió a su país de nuevo en una amenaza para sus ciudadanos y para el mundo.

Denne lydbog om Putin rummer den russisk-amerikanske journalist Masha Gessens uautoriserede biografi over Vladimir Putin. Den tegner et portræt af en underordnet, men skruppelløs og magtsyg KGB-agent, som gennem manipulation og brutalitet er blevet den mægtigste mand i Rusland. I 1999 blev den forholdsvis ukendte Vladimir Putin premierminister og umiddelbart efter præsident for Rusland. Vesten var begejstret for det nye ansigt i Kreml.