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Also by Masha Gessen:

The Brothers, April 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Man Without A Face, March 2012
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The Man Without A Face
Masha Gessen

The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Riverhead Books
March 2012
On Sale: March 1, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 1594488428
EAN: 9781594488429
Kindle: B005GSZISA
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History

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 and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked as a successor by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. Suddenly the boy who had stood in the shadows, dreaming of ruling the world, was a public figure, and his popularity soared. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see the progressive leader of their dreams, even as he seized control of media, sent political rivals and critics into exile or to the grave, and smashed the country's fragile electoral system, concentrating power in the hands of his cronies. As a journalist living in Moscow, Masha Gessen experienced this history firsthand, and for The Man Without a Face she has drawn on information and sources no other writer has tapped. Her account of how a "faceless" man maneuvered his way into absolute-and absolutely corrupt-power has the makings of a classic of narrative nonfiction.

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