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The man without a face : the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin / Masha Gessen.

by Gessen, Masha, author.

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New York, New York, USA : Riverhead Books, [2014]

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-

Presidents -- Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-

9781594486517 (paperback)

1594486514 (paperback)

342 pages ; 23 cm

Prologue -- The accidental president -- The election war -- The autobiography of a thug -- Once a spy -- A coup and a crusade -- The end of a reformer -- The day the media died -- The dismantling of democracy -- Rule of terror -- Insatiable greed -- Back in the USSR -- Epilogue : A week in December.

"In 1999, the "Family" surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly unpopular president. Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience--he'd been deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, and briefly, director of the secret police--nevertheless seemed the perfect choice: a "faceless" creature whom Yeltsin and his cronies could mold in their own image. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see in him the progressive leader of their dreams--even as Putin, with ruthless efficiency, dismantled the country's media, wrested control and wealth from the business class, and destroyed the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Within a few brief years, virtually every obstacle to his unbridled control was removed and every opposing voice silenced, with political rivals and critics driven into exile or to the grave"--Back cover.

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