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The man without a face : the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin / Masha Gessen.
- Description: 314 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : RIVERHEAD BOOKS, 2012, ©2012.
- ISBN: 9781594488429
- ISBN: 1594488428
Available copies
- 10 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).
Current holds
0 current holds with 11 total copies.
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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| Beverly Main | Adult Nonfiction | DK 510.766 .P87 G47 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Bunker Hill Community College | Stacks | DK510.766 .P87 G47 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Gloucester | Adult Nonfiction | 947.086/Gessen (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Melrose | New Books (Browsing Room) | 947.086 Putin Gessen (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Peabody Main | Adult Nonfiction | NEW DK 510.766 .P87 G47 2012 (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Reading | Adult Nonfiction | B PUTIN GES (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Salem | Adult Biography | B/PUTIN,V./G (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Stoneham | Adult Nonfiction Lower Level | 947.086 GES (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Swampscott | Lower Level | 947.086 G (Text to phone) | Available | - |
| Wakefield | Adult Nonfiction (2nd Floor) | 947.086 Gessen (Text to phone) | Available | - |
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| Contents: | The accidental president -- The election war -- The autobiography of a thug -- Once a spy -- A coup and a crusade -- The end of Sobchak -- The day the media died -- The dismantling of democracy -- Rule of terror -- Insatiable greed. |
| Summary: | This 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 once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. Suddenly the boy who had stood in the shadows was a public figure, and his popularity soared. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see the progressive leader of their dreams, even as he seized control 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 she has drawn on sources no other writer has tapped.--From publisher description. |
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| Subject: |
Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
1952- Presidents > Russia (Federation) > Biography. Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 1991- |
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