This scathing biography of Putin was published while Gessen was still living and working in Moscow.
In 2012 Gessen released her controversial book, The Man Without a Face. She hoped to chronicle the death of the totalitarian state of her childhood, but instead Gessen found herself covering Vladimir Putin’s meteoric rise to power. Despite having no formal training, Gessen began working as a reporter. Masha, however, would return to Russia just a decade later following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December of 1991. The Gessens, fearing for their lives, emigrated to the United States. During the latter years of tight Soviet control, prior to Gorbachev’s reforms, anti-Semitism was at an all-time high in Russia.
In addition to being political dissidents themselves, Gessen’s family were also Ashkenazi Jews. Born during the height of the Soviet Union, Gessen first fled her native Russia as a teenager in 1981 along with her family. Like many political dissidents from totalitarian states, at least the living ones, Masha Gessen fled her homeland – twice.
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