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050	0	0	_aDK510.766.P87 _bG47 2012
082	0		_a92 PUT _2
100	1		_aGessen, Masha
245	1	4	_aThe man without a face _b: the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin _c/ Masha Gessen
260			_aNew York _b: RIVERHEAD BOOKS _c, [2012]
300			_a314 pages _c; 24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [292]-307) and index.
505	0		_aThe accidental president -- The election war -- The autobiography of a thug -- Once a spy -- A coup and a crusade -- The end of Sobchak -- The day the media died -- The dismantling of democracy -- Rule of terror -- Insatiable greed.
520			_aThe 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 and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked as a successor by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. Suddenly the boy who had stood in the shadows, dreaming of ruling the world, was a public figure, and his popularity soared. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see the progressive leader of their dreams, even as he seized control of media, sent political rivals and critics into exile or to the grave, and smashed the country's fragile electoral system, concentrating power in the hands of his cronies. As a journalist living in Moscow, Masha Gessen experienced this history firsthand, and for The Man Without a Face she has drawn on information and sources no other writer has tapped. Her account of how a "faceless" man maneuvered his way into absolute-and absolutely corrupt-power has the makings of a classic of narrative nonfiction.
546			_aEnglish
600	1	4	_aPutin, Vladimir Vladimirovich _d(, 1952-)
650	1	4	_aPresidents _v--Biography
651		7	_aRussia (Federation) _x-Politics and government _y-1991-
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