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(0)Masha Gessen
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RIVERHEAD BOOKS
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2012, ©2012
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This 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 and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked 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...
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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 Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag has been barely sketched and the number of its victims remains unknown. Has the Gulag been forgotten? Writer Masha Gessen and photographer Misha Friedman set out across...
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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...
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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 too had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which predisposes women to high rates of ovarian and breast cancer. Her doctors gave her narrow options: surgical removal of her breasts and ovaries or living with the likelihood of one day...
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Durante las últimas décadas hemos asistido a la muerte de una democracia que nunca llegó a serlo.
Los ciudadanos rusos han estado perdiendo derechos y libertades y, desde 2012, han sufrido una represión política abierta. Mientras, en el exterior, Rusia se embarcaba en nuevos conflictos.
¿Cómo ha ocurrido esto? ¿Qué ha pasado desde que se desplomó la URSS?
Para reconstruir la Rusia actual Masha Gessen se centra en las historias concretas...
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Eran las elecciones de 2016 y el discurso, los gestos y los comentarios de uno de los candidatos a la presidencia de Estados Unidos no tenían precedente alguno. Cuarenta y ocho horas antes de que Donald Trump fuese elegido como presidente de Estados Unidos, el ensayo "Autocracia: reglas para la supervivencia", de Masha Gessen, se volvió viral. Hoy ese ensayo, ampliado y matizado, es este libro.
Gessen aporta aquí una perspectiva inigualable, herencia...
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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 colored dresses and balaclavas, the women performed their song 'Punk Prayer, Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!' in front of the altar. The performance lasted only 40 seconds, but it resulted in two-year prison sentences for three of the performers, and...
9) Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
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In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan. The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture. By the mid-1930's tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there. The state-building ended...