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Masha Gessen

Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of 10 books of nonfiction, most recently The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Granta, 2017), which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was recently translated into German. Gessen’s understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Gessen is also the author of the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Riverhead, 2012). Gessen is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship. Gessen is also a national fellow with New America Foundation.
Subjects:
Authoritarianism, Belarus, Cybersecurity, Democracy, Disinformation, Migration, Nationalism, Russia
Updated: April 21, 2022

Agenda

Authoritarianism, Belarus, Migration, Russia
Stay or Go? The Captive Mind in Russia and Belarus
LMC 2022
Russia
One’s Own Place in the World? Russia’s Rising Generation
LMC 2019
Nationalism
New Nationalisms
LMC 2017
Cybersecurity, Democracy, Disinformation
Revisions of Reality: Can Democracy Survive the War on Information?
LMC 2016
Russia
Russian Society: Fertile Ground for a Noxious Regime?
LMC 2015

Side events

Russia
Does the Russian Society Long for a Change? What Role for Civil Society? What Role for Russian Activist Diaspore Abroad?

Another Voices of Russia talk by the Open Estonia Foundation will discuss the possible scenarios and future strategies.

LMC 2019