The Man Without a Face; The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Gessen, Masha

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Riverhead Books [published by the Penguin Group], New York, 2014

1594486514 / 9781594486517

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[4] 343 [3] pages. Occasional footnotes. Notes. Index. Small crease in back cover. This has a new Postscript. The book was shortlisted for the 2013 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. It is an investigative account of how Putin, once a little-known KGB officer, rose to become Russia's dominant political figure and reshaped the country into an authoritarian state. It blends biography, political analysis, and on-the-ground reporting to show how post-Soviet hopes for democracy were systematically dismantled. M. Gessen (formerly known as Masha Gessen) is a Russian American journalist, author, and translator who has written extensively authoritarian regimes. Gessen received the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Opinion Writing for their articles in The New York Times, which the Pulitzer committee called "an illuminating collection of reported essays on rising authoritarian regimes that draw on history and personal experience to probe timely themes of oppression, belonging and exile." Gessen writes primarily in English but also in Russian. In addition to authoring more than 10 nonfiction books, Gessen has been an opinion columnist at The New York Times since May 2024 and was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 2017 to 2024. Gessen has also contributed to The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, and U.S. News & World Report. 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 her 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 draws on information and sources no other writer has tapped. The account of how a "faceless" man maneuvered his way into absolute-and absolutely corrupt-power has the makings of a classic of narrative nonfiction. Gessen's analysis of Putin is mostly speculative, but a careful investigation of Putin's own revealing accounts of his life, and the use of interviews with people who knew Putin, before he rose to power, to form the book's conclusions. The book describes Vladimir Putin's early life, including his relationship with his parents and his school life under a communist government. Gessen uses Putin's early years to show the reader how he was shaped into the man he became. The book covers controversies and wars Putin was involved in, such as the First Chechen War and contains stories about former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin. It goes on to explain the relationship between him and his wife. It then discusses controversies in the government and Putin's eventual rise to power in the Kremlin. The book sold well, but had mixed reviews. Many said Gessen had a biased view. CIA officer John Ehrman's review stated: "effective as anti-Putin propaganda".…

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Titel
The Man Without a Face; The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
Autor
Gessen, Masha
Verlag
Riverhead Books [published by the Penguin Group], New York
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Zustand
Very good
Einband
Trade paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
1594486514
ISBN-13
9781594486517
Illustrator
Stephane Laboue (Cover photograph) and Svenya Gene
Auflage
Later printing.

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