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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'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 confusion and i...

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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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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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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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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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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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A National Book Award winner’s personal journey through the ethical dilemmas and unsettling choices raised by the new frontier of DNA testing.   Several years after Masha Gessen’s mother died of breast cancer, she discovered she t...

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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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A galvanizing 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-from a bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist. In the run-up t...

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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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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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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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A collaboration between the National Book Award-winning journalist and the prize-winning photographer on the queer-resistance theater troupeIn the fall of 2017, the internationally acclaimed underground theater troupe Belarus Free Theatre took New...

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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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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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'An indispensable voice of and for this moment' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Since Trump's inauguration in 2016, a new mantra has taken hold: 'this isn't normal'. And in Trump's response to Covid-19, we have witnessed the extreme consequen...

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'An indispensable voice of and for this moment' Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyMany 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 confusion and in...

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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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In 2004, genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. As she wrestled with a wrenching personal decision - what to do with such knowledge? - Gessen explored the landscape of this brav...

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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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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 perf...

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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 perf...

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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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