Name: Surviving Autocracy
Price: 267.00 ZAR
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Author: Masha Gessen
ISBN: 9781783786787

Type

Physical Book

Author

Masha Gessen

Publisher

Granta Books

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781783786787

Surviving Autocracy

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Synopsis "Surviving Autocracy "

'An indispensable voice of and for this moment' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Many of us are consumed by news cycles reporting on Trump's latest astonishing policy or declaration, and the overwhelming sense we have is one of confusion and incredulity - how could this be happening? As the 2020 US Presidential race takes shape, SURVIVING AUTOCRACY provides an indispensable overview of the calamitous trajectory of the past few years. Drawing on her Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, acclaimed New Yorker journalist and prize-winning author Masha Gessen links together seemingly disparate elements of Trump's regime to offer a roadmap for understanding Trump's approach, policies and ultimate aims. Highlighting an inventory of ravages to liberal democracy, including the corrosion of the media, the justice system and cultural norms, she posits that America is in the throws of an autocratic attempt. Gessen's penetrating analysis offers a new political discourse to replace that which has been so thoroughly degraded, and with it, a clearer path to action. Manifesto-like, Surviving Autocracy is threaded with solutions to the current situation, such as developing a political language that encompasses autocratic impulses, a more agile and honest media, and a visionary moral politics to counter Trump's extraordinary on-going assault.

Masha Gessen

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She is the author of the best seller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). She has written ten non-fiction books, her most recent work The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2007; she has also written about the rights of the LGBTI population and is considered the leading LGBTI activist in Russia.

Editor at The New Yorker since 2007. She has contributed to media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

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