Gessen putin
- Gessen's armchair psychoanalysis of Putin is speculative.
- Gessen's analysis of Putin is mostly speculative, but they carefully investigate his own revealing accounts of his life, and they use interviews with people who.
- Masha Gessen has a great turn of phrase and her writing leads to strong conclusions: "Like other members of his generation, Putin replaced belief in communism.
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VIDEO: Journalist Masha Gessen: “Putin does not want a ceasefire”
SARAH FERGUSON, PRESENTER: Masha Gessen, welcome to 7.30.
MASHA GESSEN, THE NEW YORK TIMES: Thank you. Good to be here.
SARAH FERGUSON: The European Union is beginning its entry negotiations with Ukraine. How do you think Vladimir Putin will respond to these talks in Luxembourg?
MASHA GESSEN: You know, I'm not in the business of making predictions. I think I'm much more comfortable talking about what we actually know is happening. And what we know is happening is that Ukraine and Russia have entered a stage of the war that is protracted and that is ultimately beneficial to Russia and incredibly destructive for Ukraine and the longer it goes on, the more true that is.
Even if the frontline essentially remains frozen, which basically is what we're looking at, right? Russia has made some gains, Ukraine has taken some land back, but in the end, exhausting and depleting Ukraine changes Ukraine and Russia has endless cannon fodder and endless resources because it's a totalitarian state to kee
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For Western audiences, the past few weeks have been a torrent of information about what’s happening in Russia and Ukraine. Daily updates of Russian military advances. Horrifying videos of buildings exploding and innocent civilians being killed. Announcements of increasingly severe economic sanctions and major corporate pullouts. Charts showing the collapse of the ruble. Story after story about the hardships facing the Russian economy.
Most Russians, however, are living in an alternate reality. This week, the Russian government made it a crime for journalists to spread what it considers false information about the “special military operation” in Ukraine — information that would include calling the war a war. As a result, many Western news organizations, including The Times, have pulled their employees out of Russia. The Kremlin has made it nearly impossible for people in Russia to access independent or international news sources. Russian state media coverage of the conflict has been, in the words of my guest today, “bland and bloodless.”
That raises some important questions: What
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The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
2012 book by Masha Gessen
First edition | |
| Author | Masha Gessen |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | The rise and reign of Vladimir Putin |
| Published | March 2012 |
| Publisher | Riverhead Books |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 342 |
| ISBN | 9781594488429 |
| Website | www.penguinrandomhouse.com |
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin is a 2012 book by Masha Gessen about Vladimir Putin and his rise to power and reign. Gessen's analysis of Putin is mostly speculative, but they carefully investigate his own revealing accounts of his life, and they use interviews with people who knew Putin, before he rose to power, to form their conclusions.[1][2]
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The book describes Vladimir Putin's early life, including his relationship with his parents and his school life under a communist government. Gessen uses Putin's early years to show the reader how he was shaped into the man he became. The book covers controversies and wars P
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