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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 2000-talet har Putin visat vem han är, men de flesta västerländska ledare och medier har vägrat att lyssna och öppna sina ögon.
Idag, drygt tio år efter att den här boken utkom för första gången, kan världen bevittna hur Putin lägger Ukraina i ruiner, river den säkerhetsordning som gällt sedan andra världskriget och hotar med kärnvapen.
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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 covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Masha Gessen has a sixth sense for the manifestations of autocracy-and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate their emergence to Americans. Gessen not only anatomizes the corrosion of the institutions and cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years changed us from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages and a call to account but also a beacon to recovery-and to the hope of what comes next.
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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 on interviews with Perelman’s teachers, classmates, coaches, teammates, and colleagues in Russia and the United States—and informed by her own background as a math whiz raised in Russia—Gessen uncovered a mind of unrivaled computational power, one that enabled Perelman to pursue mathematical concepts to their logical (sometimes distant) end. But she also discovered that this very strength turned out to be Perelman''s undoing and the reason for his withdrawal, first from the world of mathematics and then, increasingly, from the world in general.
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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" had gone viral, and Gessen's coverage of his norm-smashing presidency became essential reading for a citizenry struggling to wrap their heads around the unimaginable. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Gessen has a sixth sense for signs of autocracy-and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate its emergence to Americans. This incisive book provides an indispensable overview of the calamitous trajectory of the past few years. Gessen not only highlights the corrosion of the media, the judiciary, and the cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years have changed us, from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages but also a beacon to recovery-or to enduring, and resisting, an ongoing assault.
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Handpicked as a successor by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. Suddenly the boy who had stood in the shadows, dreaming of ruling the world, was a public figure, and his popularity soared. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see the progressive leader of their dreams, even as he seized control of media, sent political rivals and critics into exile or to the grave, and smashed the country''s fragile electoral system, concentrating power in the hands of his cronies.
As a journalist living in Moscow, Masha Gessen experienced this history firsthand, and for The Man Without a Face she has drawn on information and sources no other writer has tapped. Her account of how a "faceless" man maneuvered his way into absolute—and absolutely corrupt—power is the definitive biography of Vladimir Putin.
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För första gången berättas hela historien om Pussy Riot, punkgruppen som med ett häpnadsväckande mod gjorde uppror mot Putins Ryssland och kastade ljus över det ryska samhällets brist på demokratiska rättigheter.Den 21 februari 2012 i Kristus Frälsarens katedral i Moskva framförde fem unga kvinnor den nu historiska bönen om att frälsa det ryska folket från Vladimir Putin. Tre av dem fängslades och anklagades för huliganism. Den efterföljande rättegången blev en världshändelse och bevakades intensivt av internationell press. Kvinnorna dömdes till två års fängelse.Människor världen över, däribland celebriteter som Patti Smith, Paul McCartney och Madonna, har uttryckt sitt starka stöd för Pussy Riot.Masha Gessen skildrar i boken hur Pussy Riot kom till och vilket inflytande punkkollektivet har fått inte bara i Ryssland, utan i hela världen. Genom djuplodande intervjuer får vi en unik inblick i medlemmarnas liv. Det är en lika personlig som politisk berättelse om kreativitet, mod och aktivism i ett av världens mäktigaste länder.