Masha Gessen

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Masha Gessen

Communications

#374

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#648

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Journalism

#257

World Rank

#292

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Masha Gessen

Sociology

#1648

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#1860

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According to Wikipedia, Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator, and activist who has been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Gessen is nonbinary and trans and uses they/them pronouns. Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights. Described as "Russia's leading LGBT rights activist", they have said that for many years they were "probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole country". They now live in New York with their wife and children.

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Masha Gessen's Published Works

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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (2017) (47)
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012) (47)
Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism (1997) (39)
Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century (2009) (22)
Half a Revolution: Contemporary Fiction by Russian Women (1995) (19)
Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene (2008) (13)
Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (2016) (3)
Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace (2004) (2)
Unreality and Social Corrosion: Masha Gessen and Ethan Zuckerman in Conversation (2019) (1)
BLOOD MATTERS: A JOURNEY ALONG THE GENETIC FRONTIER (2008) (1)
In the here and there (1999) (1)
Not good enough, even for orphanages. (2001) (0)
Forward Thinking: Masha Gessen on Language and the Social Imagination (2019) (0)
“Stay Outraged”: A Conversation with Masha Gessen (2017) (0)
Introduction to Svetlana Boym’s “Remembering Forgetting” (2019) (0)
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times (1994) (0)
Never Remember (2018) (0)

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