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Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
32.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the om ...Show more
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
27.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recen ...Show more
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, ...Show more
The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Man without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked as a successor by the " ...Show more
The Tsarnaev Brothers - the Road to a Modern Tragedy by Masha Gessen
37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
An important story for our Era: How the American dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted. The facts of the tragedy are established: on 15 April 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding 264 others. The el ...Show more
Two Babushkas : How my grandmothers survived Hitler's war and Stalin's peace by Masha Gessen
32.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A personal and human account of real life in the Soviet Union from before WWII to the fall of the iron curtain
Words Will Break Cement - The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen
28.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
This necessary and timely book is an account of the Pussy Riot protest, the ensuing global support movement, and the tangled and controversial trial of the band members. It explores the status of dissent in Russia, the roots of the group and their adoption - or appropriation - by wider collectives, femi ...Show more
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