Masha Gessen | Integrity 20’17
How to destroy democracy: Five lessons on imagining the worst
Integrity 20’17 |
Length 21:21
Filmed 20 Oct 2017
Venue Conservatorium Theatre
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
South Bank, Brisbane
Length 21:21
Filmed 20 Oct 2017
Venue Conservatorium Theatre
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
South Bank, Brisbane
MASHA GESSEN is a journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, most recently the ‘National Book Award’ winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, published in October 2017. She is also the author of the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012).
She is a contributing opinion writer to The New York Times and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, among other publications. She serves as vice-president of PEN America.