Masha Gessen
Birth date: January 01, 1967
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I really don't get much performance art; I'm sorry. Most of what I have seen strikes me as silly or just a desire to shock. Yet, I still think it is a legit form of protest or art. I just don't like it.Let's be honest, some of the art that Pussy Riot undertook is not my thing at all. And like much p...
Well written, very well organized current event book. Unfortunately, it seems like there is very little information actually available about Putin, but Gessen did a really great job laying out some of the ways that Putin's regime controls the country. I realize that putting notes/sources at the end ...
Basically they got what was coming to them. Pussy Riot were initially part of art group Voina which was responsible for a number of blatant public misdemeanors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voina.Woold YOU like to wake up and see the doors of your restaurant welded shut? All in the sake of some poli...
“How did our performance, a small and somewhat absurd act to begin with, balloon into a full-fledged catastrophe?”That’s the question this book struggles to answer. It largely succeeds.If I sound as if I’m hedging a bit, it’s because I’m still in shock from the very end of this book. I didn’t realiz...
bookshelves: nonfiction, slavic, summer-2013, politics, fraudio Read from October 11, 2012 to August 24, 2013 As I haven't read his biography I am not in the best seat to judge whether the refutations made by Gessen hold commonsense perspective. What is easy to glean is that Putin is a foul man,...
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