by Masha Gessen
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 ...
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,...
nonfic> politics> russian> contemporarysummer 2013pub 2012As 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, a squirmy deflector of questions, a killer and a climbe...
At a recent reading, Masha Gessen said she hopes that right now Putin has bigger fish to fry than chase after journalists who criticize him and his policies. I really hope she is right, because this is a courageous book. It is a thoroughly unflattering portrait of the man who is now back in the pres...
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