Masha Gessen: The Man Without a Face: the Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

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 in res...

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The Man without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making his country once more a threat to her own peo...

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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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When Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Within a few brief years, Putin had dismantled Russia's media, wrested control and wealth from the c...

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