Name: The man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
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Author: Gessen, Masha
ISBN: 9781594486517

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The man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Type

Physical Book

Author

Masha Gessen

Publisher

Riverhead Books

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

1594486514

ISBN13

9781594486517

Synopsis "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, Gessen has shown remarkable courage in researching and writing this unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." --The Wall Street Journal "Thanks to fearless reporting and acute psychological insights, Masha Gessen has done the impossible in writing a highly readable, compelling life of Russia's mysterious president-for-life." -Tina Brown, The Daily Beast 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 and made his country once more a threat to his own people and to the world. 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 has drawn on information and sources no other writer has tapped. This account of how a faceless man maneuvered his way into absolute--and absolutely corrupt--power is the definitive biography of Vladimir Putin.

Masha Gessen

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She is the author of the best seller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). She has written ten non-fiction books, her most recent work The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2007; she has also written about the rights of the LGBTI population and is considered the leading LGBTI activist in Russia.

Editor at The New Yorker since 2007. She has contributed to media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

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