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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 …
The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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 …
Surviving Autocracy
'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 …
Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored Version
" A] masterpiece . . . Babi Yar is] every bit the peer of the canonical works of witness such as] Anne Frank's diary . . . Wiesel's Night . . . Solzhenityn's Gulag Archipelago." …
Blood Matters: From Brca1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
Masha Gessen discovered through genetic testing that she had the dreaded BRCA1 genetic mutation--the same mutation made famous recently by Angelina Jolie, which predisposes women …
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy
On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan …
The Future is History
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 …
Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace
In this "extraordinary family memoir,"* the National Book Award-winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism …
Perfect Rigour
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 …
Two Babushkas
Masha Gessen's last memory of Russia was the crowd of red-eyed relatives gathered at the airport in Moscow in 1981 to wave goodbye forever to her fourteen-year-old self, her …
Dead Again
Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was "Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization." Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian …
Manden uden ansigt - Vladimir Putins usandsynlige vej til magten
I 1999 blev den forholdsvis ukendte Vladimir Putin premierminister og umiddelbart efter præsident i Rusland. Vesten var begejstret for det nye ansigt i Kreml, men meget hurtigt …