Masha Gessen - The Man Without a Face

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The Man Without a Face 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
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.

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Page 32 “Berezovsky would keep calling me”:Author interview with Natalya Gevorkyan, June 2008.

Page 33 “He was working directly for the enemy”:Pavel Gutiontov, “Zauryadnoye delo.” http://www.ruj.ru/authors/gut/100303_4.htm. Accessed May 8, 2011.

Page 34 “This is February 6, 2000”:Transcript of a Feb. 9, 2000, NTV newscast. http://www.library.cjes.ru/online/?a=con&b_id=426&c_id=4539. Accessed May 7, 2011.

Page 35 attempt to break free:Andrei Babitsky, Na voine , transcripts of Russian-language recordings of a book manuscript prepared for a French publisher. http://somnenie.narod.ru/ab/ab6.html. Accessed May 7, 2011.

Page 35 face charges of forgery:Transcript of Andrei Babitsky’s press conference on March 1, 2000. http://archive.svoboda.org/archive/hr/2000/ll.030100-3.asp. Accessed May 8, 2011.

Page 35 probably been no exchange:Oleg Panfilov, Istoriya Andreia Babitskogo , chapter 3. http://www.library.cjes.ru/online/?a=con&b_id=426&c_id=4539. Accessed May 8, 2011.

Page 35 “the information he transmitted”:Panfilov, Istoriya Andreia Babitskogo.

Page 35 funded by an act of Congress:Broadcasting Board of Governors FAQ. http://www.bbg.gov/about/faq/#q6. Accessed May 8, 2011.

Page 35 issued a statement condemning:Congressional Research Service report, “Chechnya Conflict: Recent Developments,” updated May 3, 2000. http://www.fas.org/man/crs/RL30389.pdf. Accessed May 8, 2011.

Page 36 “The Babitsky story :Author interview with Natalya Gevorkyan, June 2008.

Page 37 returned to the car and left:For the chronology of events in Ryazan, I have relied primarily on Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky, FSB vzryvayet Rossiyu , 2nd ed. (New York: Liberty Publishing, 2004), pp. 65–108, which combines many press reports with original reporting, and on Ryazanski sahar: Nezavisimoye rassledovaniye s Nikolayem Nikolayevym , the NTV television program that aired on March 24, 2000. http://video.yandex.ru/users/provorot1/view/54/. Accessed May 8, 2011.

Page 38 in at least one of the Moscow explosions:“13 sentyabrya v Rossii—den’ traura po pogibshim ot vzryvov,” an unsigned news story on Gazeta.ru, Sept. 10, 1999. http://gazeta.lenta.ru/daynews/10-09-1999/10mourn.htm. Accessed May 8, 2011.

Page 38 “The more alert we are”:ITAR-TASS, as cited by Litvinenko and Felshtinsky, FSB vzryvayet Rossiyu.

Page 39 “First, there was no explosion”: Ryazanski sahar .

THREE. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A THUG

Page 43 the Siege of Leningrad:Michael Jones, Leningrad: State of Siege (New York: Basic Books, 2008).

Page 44 “Imagine a soldier”:Ales’ Adamovich and Daniil Granin, Blokadnaya kniga . http://lib.rus.ec/b/212340/read. Accessed Feb. 7, 2011.

Page 44 Burzhuikas :Harrison Salisbury, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (New York: Da Capo Press, 2003), pp. vii–viii.

Page 44 a wood-burning stove in every room:Oleg Blotsky, Vladimir Putin: Istoriya zhizni (Moscow: Mezhdunarodniye Otnosheniya), p. 24.

Page 44 His parents… had survived the siege:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 45 twice as many women:Yuri Polyakov, Valentina Zhitomirskaya, and Natalya Aralovets, “‘Demograficheskoye ekho’ voyny,” published in the online journal Skepsis . http://scepsis.ru/library/id_1260.html. Accessed Feb. 7, 2011.

Page 45 given him up for adoption:Irina Bobrova, “Kto pridumal Putinu gruzinskiye korni?” Moskovski komsomolets , June 13, 2006. http://www.compromat.ru/page_18786.htm. Accessed Feb. 7, 2011.

Page 45 inclined to believe the story:Author interview with Natalia Gevorkyan, June 2008.

Page 46 the Putins’ apartment:Childhood friend Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky, Vladimir Putin: Istoriya zhizni , pp. 72, 89.

Page 47 a striking assertion:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 47 the Putins emerge as practically rich:Yevgeniy Putin, quoted in Blotsky, p. 46.

Page 48 “Some courtyard this was”:Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky, pp. 68–69.

Page 48If anyone ever insulted him”:Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky, p. 68.

Page 49 “The labor [shop] teacher”:Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky, p. 67.

Page 49 “Why did you not get inducted”:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 50 as a sixth-grader:Teacher Vera Gurevich, quoted ibid.

Page 50We were playing”:Grigory Geilikman, quoted in Blotsky, p. 160.

Page 50 “We were in eighth grade”:Nikolai Alekhov, quoted in Blotsky, p. 161.

Page 50 “He once invited me”:Sergei Roldugin, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.

Page 51 “Someone picked on him”:Ibid.

Page 52 hand-to-hand combat:Blotsky, p. 259.

Page 52 theme song from the miniseries:“S vyslannymi iz SshA razvedchikami vstretilsya Vladimir Putin,” July 25, 2010. http://lenta.ru/news/2010/07/25/spies/. Accessed Feb. 25, 2011.

Page 52 “When I was in ninth grade”:Blotsky, p. 199.

Page 53 subversive troops:Y. Popov, “Diversanty Stalina.” http://militera.lib.ru/h/popov_au2/01.html. Accessed Feb. 25, 2011.

Page 53 one of only four survivors:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 53 “some intelligence officer for sure”:Ibid.

Page 54 “A man came out”:Blotsky, pp. 199–200.

Page 54 “He surprised everyone”:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 55 Putin graduated from secondary school:Blotsky, p. 155.

Page 55 number of cars: http://www.ref.by/refs/1/31164/1.html. Mikhail Blinkin, “Avtomobil’ v gorode: Osobennosti natsionalnogo puti,” http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/arc/02_2010/42-45%20Blinkin.pdf. Accessed Oct. 27, 2011.

Page 55 gave the car to their son:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 56 Putin made a thousand rubles:Ibid.

Page 56 an overcoat for himself:Gevorkyan et al.; Blotsky, pp. 226–27.

Page 56 “All through my university years”:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 57 “not particularly outgoing”:Blotsky, p. 287.

Page 57 “He says, ‘Let’s go’”:Ibid., pp. 287–88.

Page 57 “Once I tried”:Sergei Roldugin, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.

Page 58 “That’s how it happened”:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 58 a tiny minority:Sergei Zakharov, “Brachnost’ v Rossii: Istoriya i sovremennost’,” Demoskop Weekly , Oct. 16–29, 2006, pp. 261–62. http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2006/0261/tema02.php. Accessed Feb. 27, 2011.

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