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Surviving Autocracy

Surviving Autocracy

by Masha Gessen
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/06/2021

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"When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen." --The New York Times

"A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact." --Interview

As seen on MSNBC's Morning Joe and heard on NPR's All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times.

This incisive book provides an essential guide to understanding and recovering from the calamitous corrosion of American democracy over the past few years. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Masha Gessen has a sixth sense for the manifestations of autocracy--and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate their emergence to Americans. Gessen not only anatomizes the corrosion of the institutions and cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years changed us from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages and a call to account but also a beacon to recovery--and to the hope of what comes next.
ISBN:
9780593332245
9780593332245
Category:
Central government
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-06-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
201.68x131.32x19.56mm
Weight:
0.25kg
Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of several books including Blood Matters and The Man Without a Face, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012.

She has contributed to the New Republic, the New Statesman, Granta, Slate and Vanity Fair. She lives in Moscow.

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