The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

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National Book Award winner Masha Gessen’s biography of a ruthless man’s ascent to near-absolute power.

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 all over again a threat to her own people and to the world.

Handpicked as a successor by the “circle of relatives” surrounding an ailing and an increasing number of unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin gave the look of a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. All of sudden the boy who had stood in the shadows, dreaming of ruling the world, was once a public figure, and his popularity soared. Russia and an infatuated West were made up our minds to see the progressive leader of their dreams, whilst he seized keep an eye on 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 author has tapped. Her account of how a “faceless” man maneuvered his way into absolute—and absolutely corrupt—power is the definitive biography of Vladimir Putin.

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