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Having spent over two decades analyzing Russia's slide into dictatorship, journalist
is now terrified of the damage President Donald Trump could do to democracy in the U.S.
spoke with Gessen about Putin, the media, and what citizens can do to protect a country from authoritarianism.
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Having spent over two decades analyzing Russia's slide into dictatorship, journalist Masha Gessen is now terrified of the damage President Donald Trump could do to democracy in the U.S. World Policy Journal spoke with Gessen about Putin, the media, and what citizens can do to protect a country from authoritarianism.
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Forward Thinking: Masha Gessen on Language and the Social Imagination
An interview with Masha Gessen, a staff writer at the New Yorker and the John J. McCloy Professor of American Institutions and International Diplomacy at Amherst College, is presented. Among other things, Gessen talks about how the totalitarian manipulation of language diminish our ability to envision--and therefore to enact--political change.
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Behind the balaclavas
Nadezhda \"Nadya\" Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot were released in December 2013. Maria Gessen, who corresponded with the women in prison, examines how their trial became the first battle in Putin's \"war on modernity\" and a dark moment in Russian history. (Quotes from original text)
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Sex in the Media and the Birth of the Sex Media in Russia
After several months, [Adrian Geiges] realized that the book was hopelessly mired in the Progress bureaucracy and offered some chapters for publication to Sovremennik, a magazine that was beginning to test the waters of alternative editing. To no one's great surprise, the issue that carried the chapters sold out quickly, and Geiges proposed that the Sovremennik publishing house bring out the book. The proposal tested the magazine's independent mood. Finally, a compromise was concocted: Sovremennik would bring out a book that contained the original 150 pages of Sex & Perestroika accompanied by a glossary and some Western theoretical texts that would place the book in context for Soviet readers. The final table of contents included Shere Hite's \"The Best Way to Part,\" Germaine Greer's \"Sex and Destiny,\" German scholars Sigfried Schnabl and Kurt Shtarke's \"Science on Homosexuality,\" and Gunter Amendt and Shere Hite's \"Sexologists and American Women on Masturbation\" (a hybrid article bred by the editors). The final glossary included not only words like \"orgasm\" and \"clitoris,\" which were beginning to become familiar to consumers of sex-related literature, but entirely new terms like \"cunnilingus\" (\"Today, the once common opinion that cunnilingus is a deviation from the norm has been overcome,\" the glossary's optimistic authors declared confidently) and defined some tried and true terms in new ways. Thus \"frigidity\" was defined as \"an archaic term...no longer used in international scientific literature,\" designating Soviet literature either unscientific or non-international in a rare -- for such books until then -- bow to the West. The book's final press run was 5,000 copies, all of which were sold over the course of two hours of Geiges and [Tatiana Suvorova]'s book party, held in a bookstore housed in the building of Progress, which was beginning to feel the slacking sales of its translations of books about wildlife.
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Editorial Dilemmas at an Independent Magazine in Moscow
On Dec 20, 2004, in two different courtrooms---one in Moscow and one in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk---judges handed down two verdicts that both reflect the eradication of democracy in Vladimir Putin's regime. Here, Gessen shares her dilemmas on how to report on the two verdicts against dissidents.
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Fear and self-censorship in Vladimir Putin's Russia
In the last five years, Vladimir Putin's government has systematically eradicated a variety of political freedoms, turning back Russia's attempts to build a democracy. Here, Gessen comments on the Putin regime's media censorship and journalists repression.
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