Surviving Autocracy
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Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING"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.
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and the author of several books, including The Man Without a Face, a national success. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Newsweek, Slate, and a variety of other magazines, and she has won multiple accolades, including the 2013 Media for Liberty Award. She has worked as an editor for a number of periodicals as well as the director of Radio Liberty's Moscow Service. She is based in Moscow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593332245 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593332245 |
| Title | Surviving Autocracy |
| Author | Masha Gessen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2021-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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