La fascinante historia de c mo Vlad mir Putin, un agente mediocre del KGB, lleg a la presidencia de Rusia, deshizo a os de avances y convirti a su pa s de nuevo en una amenaza para sus ciudadanos y para el mundo.

Desde su llegada al poder en 1999, Vlad mir Putin se ha hecho con el control de los medios de comunicaci n, sus rivales pol ticos han acabado encarcelados, exiliados o muertos, y el fr gil sistema electoral ruso apenas se sostiene. Pese a las valientes manifestaciones de protesta por el fraude en las elecciones de diciembre de 2011, Putin continu en el poder y Rusia volvi a ser una amenaza para sus ciudadanos y para el mundo entero.

Masha Gessen ha vivido esta historia de primera mano, con las amenazas, el asesinato, el exilio y las misteriosas desapariciones de muchos de sus amigos y colegas. A pesar de ello, volvi a Mosc para contar el asombroso ascenso de Putin, tras conversar con fuentes que nunca habr an hablado con periodistas. Su relato de c mo un hombre an nimo se abri camino hasta alcanzar un poder absoluto, y absolutamente corrupto, es ya un cl sico de la narrativa de no ficci n.

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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, 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.

El Hombre Sin Rostro: El Sorprendente Ascenso de Vladímir Putin / The Man Withou T a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin - nidottu, espanja, 2022