Masha Gessen
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and author, and editor of the Russian-language Snob magazine, aimed at Russians living abroad. She has contributed to Granta, Slate and the New Statesman, among other publications. She is the author of several books, including Man Without a Face, Perfect Rigour and Blood Matters. She lives in Moscow.
Books by Masha Gessen
Surviving Autocracy
Published: August 2020
The only book you need to read to understand the events of the past four years in Trump's America, from the prize-winning Russian-American New Yorker writer.
The Future is History
Published: July 2018
The sweeping, revelatory history of post-Soviet Russia from the great dissident exile.
The Future is History
Published: November 2017
The sweeping, urgent, revelatory history of post-Soviet Russia in which the great dissident exile Masha Gessen reveals precisely how the hope of democracy gave way to a devastating new strain of autocracy.
The Future is History
Published: November 2017
Winner of the 2017 National Book Award for non-fiction: The sweeping, urgent, revelatory history of post-Soviet Russia in which the great dissident exile Masha Gessen reveals precisely how the hope of democracy gave way to a devastating new strain of autocracy.
Words Will Break Cement
Published: February 2014
Keynote The story of Pussy Riot, punk icons and Russian dissenters, and the untold story of their infamous trial and on-going global significance.
The Man Without A Face
Published: January 2013
A brave and revelatory account of how a small-minded, low-level KGB operative came to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and to the world.
Perfect Rigour
Published: December 2011
A thrilling account of an utterly brilliant and eccentric Russian mathematician which sheds a rare light on the unique burden of genius.
Blood Matters
Published: December 2009
An intensely personal memoir and an informative guide to the new genetics.
