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Masha Gessen

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in Moscow, USSR

January 13, 1967

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Masha Gessen (born 1967) is an American-Russian journalist, translator, and nonfiction author. They identify as non-binary and use they/them pronouns.

Born into an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Russia, in 1981 they moved with their family to the United States to escape anti-Semitism. They returned in 1991 to Moscow, where they worked as a journalist, and covered Russian military activities during the Chechen Wars. In 2013, they were publicly threatened by prominent Russian politicians for their political activism and were forced to leave Russia for the United States.

They write in both Russian and English, and has contributed to The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta and Slate. Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker, covering international ...more

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With the expansion of The New York Times’s international opinion report, the Latitude blog, which began in October 2011, has been retired.

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Average rating: 3.96 · 30,135 ratings · 3,738 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin 3.82 avg rating — 12,014 ratings — published 2010 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia 4.19 avg rating — 7,006 ratings — published 2017 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surviving Autocracy 4.15 avg rating — 4,538 ratings — published 2020 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century 3.95 avg rating — 1,386 ratings — published 2009 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot 3.78 avg rating — 1,441 ratings — published 2014 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen, Hillary Huber (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.60 avg rating — 1,453 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace 4.14 avg rating — 682 ratings — published 2004 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series) 3.78 avg rating — 672 ratings — published 2016 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia by Masha Gessen, Misha Friedman (Photographer) 4.14 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in th Future of the Gene 3.81 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“No one is easier to manipulate than a man who exaggerates his own influence.”
― Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

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“It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.”
― Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

tags: capitalism, economics, income, money, poverty, power

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“The people who came were not always the ones who most needed to escape: they were the ones most capable of escaping.”
― Masha Gessen, The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy

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