Masha Gessen - Böcker

Mannen utan ansikte är en sensationell, modig och upprörande skildring av Putins väg till makten. Gradvis har han utmanövrerat och eliminerat sina politiska rivaler och tagit ett järnhårt grepp om medierna och sina kritiker. Ända sedan början av 2...

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Redan 48 timmar efter att Trump segrat i det amerikanska valet 2016 hade Masha Gessens essä Autocracy: Rules for Survival blivit viral och lästes och diskuterades av alla som försökte förstå vad som just hade hänt. Som rysk-amerikanska och verksam...

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'An indispensable voice of and for this moment' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Many of us are consumed by news cycles reporting on Trump's latest astonishing policy or declaration, and the overwhelming sense we have is one of ...

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The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessens understanding of ...

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Efter att ha kommit till makten som premiärminister och därefter president i Ryssland 1999 har Vladimir Putin gradvis utmanövrerat och eliminerat sina politiska rivaler. Han har nedmonterat landets sköra demokrati, inte minst genom sitt järnhårda ...

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'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday How did a small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the world's largest country and, in a...

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Redan 48 timmar efter att Trump segrat i det amerikanska valet 2016 hade Masha Gessens essä Autocracy: Rules for Survival blivit viral och lästes och diskuterades av alla som försökte förstå vad som just hade hänt. Som rysk-amerikanska och verksam...

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After genetic testing revealed her predisposposition to ovarian and breast cancer, the author composed this valuable and extensively researched field guide to the significant role DNA plays in making us who we are.

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In this absorbing portrait, Gessen relates the experiences of her two grandmothers, both Russian Jews who survived the atrocities inflicted by Hitler and Stalin during World War II, showing how overwhelming events force people to search for the de...

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A gripping and tragic tale that sheds rare light on the unique burden of geniusIn 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved the Poincare Conjecture, an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best min...

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“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times “The Platonic ideal of the anti-Trump Trump book.” —The Washington PostAs seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’...

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This incisive book provides an essential guide to understanding and recovering from the calamitous corrosion of American democracy over the past few years. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades ...

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From National Book Award winner Masha Gessen, the heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies. On February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-color...

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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 ...

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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONFINALIST 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...

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Masha Gessen's last memory of Russia was the crowd of red-eyed relatives gathered at the airport in Moscow in 1981 to wave goodbye forever to her fourteen-year-old self, her brother and her parents. Unwilling to have their children grow up be...

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From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends w...

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From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends w...

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A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russias pastand 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 t...

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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 Stalin...

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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, Ms. Gessen has shown remarkable courage i...

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A chilling and unflinching portrait of one of the most fearsome figures in world politics. Boris Yeltsin and his cronies thought they could mold Vladimir Putin in their own image. But Putin, with ruthless efficiency, dismantled the country's media...

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In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of t...

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On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Dressed in their trademark brightly coloured dresses and balaclavas, the women...

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In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2...

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In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2...

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Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was "Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization." Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of responsibility ...

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»Kaum jemand hat die subversive Kraft antidemokratischer und autoritärer Ideologien und Regime so präzise analysiert wie Masha Gessen.« Carolin Emcke Nicht nur Russland, Ungarn oder die Türkei sind autokratische Staaten. In den USA werden täglich ...

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Tyrann oder Patriot? Hunderttausende Russen protestieren auf den Straßen Moskaus. Ihre Wut richtet sich gegen den Mann, der hinter der Fassade der Demokratie das alleinige Sagen hat: Wladimir Putin. Masha Gessen entlarvt den unscheinbaren Mann ohn...

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Wladimir Putin hat mit Hilfe einer kleinen, aber mÿchtigen Gruppe des russischen Geheimdienstes KGB, alten kommunistischen Potentaten und neureichen Oligarchen eines der gröÿten Lÿnder der Erde in eine Diktatur zurückverwandelt. Masha Gessen ...

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