Máša Gessen Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

Stát nás ochrání. Dokud nás nezačne ohrožovat. Když se v roce 2016 stal vítězem amerických prezidentských voleb Donald Trump, spousta Američanů i lidí po celém světě se uklidňovala odolností amerického systému a stabilitou jeho institucí. Do čela světové velmoci se možná dostal narcistní psychopat, demokracie však nestojí na osobnostech, nýbrž na pevném systému vah a protivah, nezávislých úřadů a institucí s dlouhou a váženou tradicí, tradovalo se mezi západními novináři a komentátory. Jako jedna z mála kritizovala tento přístup Masha Gessen — léta strávená v Rusku i psaním o vládě Vladimira Putina jí napovídala, že přerod demokracie v autokracii může být snazší a rychlejší, než by se mohlo zdát. Z jejího eseje „Autocracy: Rules for Survival“ (Autokracie: pravidla přežití) se proto krátce po Trumpově vítězství stal jeden z nejsdílenějších a nejcitovanějších článků. Kniha Přežít autokracii však není pouhým knižním rozpracováním původního eseje či další položkou v dlouhém výčtu Trumpových skandálů a překračování demokratických mantinelů. Gessen zkušenosti s vládou a kroky Donalda Trumpa z posledních čtyř let zasazuje do širšího politického rámce a srovnává je s podobným vývojem v Rusku či orbánovském Maďarsku.

Migration ist eines der bestimmenden Themen unserer Zeit. Kein Tag vergeht, an dem im Fernsehen oder in den sozialen Medien nicht über Flüchtlinge, Fluchtursachen oder Flüchtlingshilfe diskutiert würde. Häufig gerät dabei in den Hintergrund, welche Konsequenzen Begriffe und Ausdrucksweisen haben. Zu oft bringt schon unsere Sprache die Betroffenen zum Schweigen, etwa wenn aus Menschen »Asylanten«, »Fremde« oder in den Worten von US-Präsident Trump: »Illegale« werden.In dem Versuch, jenen, die ihre »Sprache verloren« haben (Hannah Arendt), eine Stimme zu leihen, erzählt Masha Gessen Geschichten der Migration. Gessen berichtet von Menschenrechtsaktivisten aus Russland, Homosexuellen aus dem Iran - und aus der eigenen Familiengeschichte. Die Porträts fügen sich zu einem beeindruckenden Plädoyer für die menschliche Würde.

Reisen zu den Orten des Schreckens Der sowjetische Gulag war eine der größten Tötungsmaschinen in einem Jahrhundert der Tötungsmaschinen. Niemand war sicher. Masha Gessen und Misha Friedman sind quer durch Russland gereist, zu den Orten des Schreckens, haben mit Menschen gesprochen und Schicksale rekonstruiert. Bewusst geworden ist ihnen dabei vor allem eines: Der Terror des Gulag ist nicht etwa vergessen. Man hat sich nie richtig an ihn erinnert.

,"A book that belongs on the shelf alongside The Gulag Archipelago. -- Kirkus Reviews A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russia's past -- and present. The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from the 1930s to the 1950s. More than half a century after the end of Stalinist terror, the geography of the Gulag has been barely sketched and the number of its victims remains unknown. Has the Gulag been forgotten?Writer Masha Gessen and photographer Misha Friedman set out across Russia in search of the memory of the Gulag. They journey from Moscow to Sandarmokh, a forested site of mass executions during Stalin's Great Terror; to the only Gulag camp turned into a museum, outside of the city of Perm in the Urals; and to Kolyma, where prisoners worked in deadly mines in the remote reaches of the Far East. They find that in Vladimir Putin's Russia, where Stalin is remembered as a great leader, Soviet terror has not been forgotten: it was never remembered in the first place.

The visionary journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her “fearless indictment of the most powerful man in Russia” (The Wall Street Journal), award-winning journalist Masha Gessen is unparalleled in her understanding of the events and forces that have wracked her native country in recent times. In The Future Is History, she follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own—as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today’s terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.

From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration. In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan.The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture. By the mid-1930s tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there. The state-building ended quickly, in the late 1930s, with arrests and purges instigated by Stalin. But after the Second World War, Birobidzhan received another influx of Jews—those who had been dispossessed by the war. In the late 1940s a second wave of arrests and imprisonments swept through the area, traumatizing Birobidzhan’s Jews into silence and effectively shutting down most of the Jewish cultural enterprises that had been created. Where the Jews Aren’t is a haunting account of the dream of Birobidzhan—and how it became the cracked and crooked mirror in which we can see the true story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia. (Part of the Jewish Encounters series)

In an effort to determine why the atrocity occurred, the author traces the lives of the two immigrant brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings.

Když se v roce 1999 lidé kolem Borise Jelcina snažili najít náhradu za svého chřadnoucího a čím dál méně oblíbeného prezidenta, padla jejich volba na tehdy téměř neznámého Vladimira Vladimiroviče Putina, muže bez tváře, o němž si mysleli, že se jim snadno podaří dotvořit jej podle vlastních představ. A skutečně, Rusko i poblázněný Západ byly rozhodnuty vidět v něm progresivního vůdce svých snů, dokonce i tehdy, když Putin nemilosrdně rozprášil ruská média, vyrval moc i bohatství z rukou byznysmenů a zlikvidoval křehce se rodící demokratické mechanismy. Během několika let byly odstraněny všechny překážky, jež by mu jakkoliv bránily v uplatnění nekontrolovatelné moci: opoziční hlasy byly umlčeny, političtí protivníci a kritici vyhnáni do exilu nebo zavražděni. Masha Gessenová tento příběh zažila na vlastní kůži a podle toho o něm také hovoří. Její fascinující vyprávění o Putinově vzestupu a vládě je vynikajícím dílem žurnalistické literatury a českému čtenáři přinese nejedno překvapení.

A gripping and tragic tale that sheds rare light on the unique burden of genius  In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved the Poincare Conjecture, an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. A prize of one million dollars was offered to anyone who could unravel it, but Perelman declined the winnings, and in doing so inspired journalist Masha Gessen to tell his story. Drawing on interviews with Perelmanâ s teachers, classmates, coaches, teammates, and colleagues in Russia and the United Statesâ and informed by her own background as a math whiz raised in Russiaâ Gessen uncovered a mind of unrivaled computational power, one that enabled Perelman to pursue mathematical concepts to their logical (sometimes distant) end. But she also discovered that this very strength turned out to be Perelman's undoing and the reason for his withdrawal, first from the world of mathematics and then, increasingly, from the world in general.

In this “extraordinary family memoir,”* the National Book Award–winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny reigned. *The New York Times Book Review In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. Ester Goldberg was a rebel from Bialystok, Poland, where virtually the entire Jewish community would be sent to Hitler’s concentration camps. Ruzya Solodovnik was a Russian-born intellectual who would become a high-level censor under Stalin’s regime. At war’s end, both women found themselves in Moscow. Over the years each woman had to find her way in a country that aimed to make every citizen a cog in the wheel of murder and repression. One became a hero in her children’s and grandchildren’s eyes; the other became a collaborator. With grace, candor, and meticulous research, Masha Gessen, one of the most trenchant observers of Russia and its history today, peels back the layers of time to reveal her grandmothers’ lives—and to show that neither story is quite what it seems. Praise for Masha Gessen “One of the most important activists and journalists Russia has known in a generation.”—David Remnick, The New Yorker “Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny