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Dead AgainThe Russian Intelligentsia After Communism by Masha Gessen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Isaiah Berlin once argued that the concept of the intelligentsia was "Russia's greatest contribution to world civilization." Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian intelligentsia has shared a profound sense of responsibility for the fate of its country and a belief in the transformative power of ...Show more
Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved one of the world's greatest intellectual puzzles. The Poincare conjecture is an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. In 2000, the Clay Institute in Boston named it one of seven g ...Show more
The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Man without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked as a successor by the " ...Show more
Words Will Break Cement - The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
This necessary and timely book is an account of the Pussy Riot protest, the ensuing global support movement, and the tangled and controversial trial of the band members. It explores the status of dissent in Russia, the roots of the group and their adoption - or appropriation - by wider collectives, femi ...Show more
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