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Masha Gessen

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: January 12 1967

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Masha Gessen is an American-Russian journalist, translator, and nonfiction author. They identify as non-binary and use they/them pronouns.

Born into an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Russia, in 1981 they moved with their family to the United States to escape anti-Semitism. They returned in 1991 to Moscow, where they worked as a journalist, and covered Russian military activities during the Chechen Wars. In 2013, they were publicly threatened by prominent Russian politicians for their political activism and were forced to leave Russia for the United States.

They write in both Russian and English, and has contributed to The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta and Slate. Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker, covering international politics, Russia, LGBT rights, and gender issues.

Masha Gessen

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Born: January 12 1967

Twitter: Go to Twitter Account

Masha Gessen is an American-Russian journalist, translator, and nonfiction author. They identify as non-binary and use they/them pronouns.

Born into an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Russia, in 1981 they moved with their family to the United States to escape anti-Semitism. They returned in 1991 to Moscow, where they worked as a journalist, and covered Russian military activities during the Chechen Wars. In 2013, they were publicly threatened by prominent Russian politicians for their political activism and were forced to leave Russia for the United States.

They write in both Russian and English, and has contributed to The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta and Slate. Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker, covering international politics, Russia, LGBT rights, and gender issues.

Books from Masha Gessen

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Surviving Autocracy

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladmir Putin

Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia

Blood Matters: A Journey Along the Genetic Frontier

3.8/5 ( ratings)

In the Here and There

3.6/5 ( ratings)

PEN America Issue 21: Mythologies

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Leben mit Exil: Über Migration sprechen

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Gay Propaganda - Russian Love Stories

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Two Women in Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance

3.6/5 ( ratings)

As Duas Babushkas

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Tsarnaev Brothers: The Road to a Modern Tragedy

3.6/5 ( ratings)

n+1 Issue 1: Negation

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Half a Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women

3.6/5 ( ratings)