Masha Gessen, author portrait
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Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen is the author of twelve books, including the National Book Award–winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. A staff writer at The New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and Carnegie fellowships, Gessen teaches at Bard College and lives in New York City.
Surviving Autocracy
Never Remember
The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)
Where the Jews Aren't
The Brothers
Words Will Break Cement
The Man Without a Face
Ester and Ruzya

Books

Surviving Autocracy
Never Remember
The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)
Where the Jews Aren't
The Brothers
Words Will Break Cement
The Man Without a Face
Ester and Ruzya

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