Surviving Autocracy
Masha Gessen
(Author)
Description
"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.
Product Details
Price
$26.00
$24.18
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Publish Date
June 02, 2020
Pages
288
Dimensions
5.4 X 8.0 X 1.2 inches | 0.8 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780593188934
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About the Author
Masha Gessen is the author of eleven other 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.
Reviews
Advance Praise for Surviving Autocracy "A brisk, trenchant account . . . . Gessen's meticulous research and familiarity with the political and cultural history of post-Soviet Russia lend her arguments an authority lacking in other takedowns of Trump. Liberals looking to make sense of what they're up against in the 2020 elections should consider this a must-read." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A handbook for an age in which egomania is morphing into autocracy at warp speed. . . . Belongs on the shelf alongside Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny and Amy Siskind's The List as a record of how far we have fallen. Gessen is a Suetonius for our time, documenting the death of the old America while holding out slim hope for its restoration." --Kirkus (starred review)
"Gessen's is a clarion voice in the darkness, offering a sobering but sharp-witted analysis of how American society has changed under Trump . . . . [her] rallying cry is a vital and pressing reminder of what's at stake." --Booklist (starred review)
"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Praise for The Future Is History:
"Ambitious, timely, insightful, and unsparing." - The Washington Post
"Harrowing, compassionate, and important." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Fascinating and deeply felt."--The New York Times Book Review
Praise for The Man Without a Face:
"An unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." - Wall Street Journal
"Gessen shines a piercing light into every dark corner. ... Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." -Foreign Affairs
"Gessen's is a clarion voice in the darkness, offering a sobering but sharp-witted analysis of how American society has changed under Trump . . . . [her] rallying cry is a vital and pressing reminder of what's at stake." --Booklist (starred review)
"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Praise for The Future Is History:
"Ambitious, timely, insightful, and unsparing." - The Washington Post
"Harrowing, compassionate, and important." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Fascinating and deeply felt."--The New York Times Book Review
Praise for The Man Without a Face:
"An unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." - Wall Street Journal
"Gessen shines a piercing light into every dark corner. ... Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." -Foreign Affairs
