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 58 “One evening”:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 59 such was his cover:Ibid.

Page 59 “I was most amazed”:Ibid.

Page 60 “Only the Central Committee”:Vadim Bakatin, Izbavleniye ot KGB (Moscow: Novosti, 1992), pp. 45–46.

Page 61 Article 190:Bakatin, pp. 32–33.

Page 61 constant surveillance and harassment:Filipp Bobkov, KGB i vlast (Moscow: Veteran MP, 1995).

Page 61 thoroughly familiar with the way it was organized:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 61 A perfectly laudatory memoir:Vladimir Usol’tsev, Sosluzhivets (Moscow: Eksmo, 2004), p. 186.

Page 61 “It was an entirely unremarkable school”:Ibid.

Page 61 Counterintelligence officers in Moscow:Bobkov.

Page 61 assigned to the intelligence unit:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 62 did his job well:Ibid.

Page 63 a little Stasi world:Ludmila Putina, quoted ibid.

Page 63 Putin drank beer:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 64 Putin was assigned:Author interview with Sergei Bezrukov (former KGB agent in Berlin), Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 64 Putin and his two colleagues:Usol’tsev, pp. 70–74; author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 64 small monthly hard-currency payments:Usol’tsev, p. 36.

Page 65 they made a lot more money:Ibid., p. 30.

Page 65 so unreachable for someone like Putin:Author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 65 a former RAF member:Author interview with the man, Bavaria, August 18, 2011; he asked that his name not be printed.

Page 65 every other officer… had his own office:Usol’tsev, p. 62.

Page 66 Former agents estimate:Usol’tsev, p. 105; author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 66 Putin’s biggest success:Author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 66 The KGB leadership:Bobkov.

Page 66 a public statement condemning secret-police crimes:O. N. Ansberg and A. D. Margolis, eds., Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ Leningrada v gody perestroiki, 1985–1991: Sbornik materialov (St. Petersburg: Serebryany Vek, 2009), p. 192.

Page 68 demonstrations in East Germany continued:Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke, Dresden and the Paradoxes of Memory in History (New York: Routledge, 2001).

Page 69 shoving papers into a wood-burning stove:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 70 “I was scared to go into stores”:Ludmila Putina, quoted ibid.

Page 70 “They cannot do this”:Sergei Roldugin, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.

FOUR. ONCE A SPY

Page 74 “The people of our generation”: Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 502.

Page 75 “stop misinforming people”:Sergei Vasilyev, memoirs published in the Obvodny Times , vol. 4, no. 22 (April 2007), p. 8, quoted in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 447.

Page 75 “It seems, after the dust”:Alexander Vinnikov, Tsena svobody, quoted in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 449.

Page 76 “We all found one another”:Yelena Zelinskaya, “Vremya ne zhdet,” Merkuriy , vol. 3 (1987), quoted in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 41–42.

Page 76 a living page:Vasilyev, quoted in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 447.

Page 76 a group of young Leningrad economists: Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 47, 76.

Page 77 Leningrad saw its first political rally:Ibid., pp. 51, 52, 54, 74.

Page 77 “The rules were, anyone could speak for five minutes”:Ibid., p. 632.

Page 78 start eating their lemons:Ibid., p. 633.

Page 79 a rally in memory of victims of political repression:Ibid., p. 112.

Page 79 the People’s Front:The first meeting of the People’s Front, held in Leningrad in August 1988, was attended by representatives of twenty organizations from different Russian cities and twelve more from other Soviet republics. http://www.agitclub.ru/front/frontdoc/zanarfront1.htm. Accessed Jan. 13, 2011.

Page 79 “An organization that aims”: Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 119.

Page 80 “They would gather”:Andrei Boltyansky, interview, 2008, ibid., p. 434.

Page 81 “With a cigarette dangling from her lips”:Petr Shelish, interview, 2008, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 884 of the online version.

Page 81 conflict erupted between Azerbaijan and Armenia:Thomas de Waal, Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War (New York: New York University Press, 2004).

Page 82 solidarity with the Armenian people: Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 115.

Page 82 Armenian children from Sumgait:Alexander Vinnikov, memoir, ibid., p. 450.

Page 82 Karabakh Committee: Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 126.

Page 82 Article 70:Article 70, Penal Code of the RSFSR. http://www.memo.ru/history/diss/links/st70.htm. Accessed Jan. 17, 2011.

Page 82 the last Article 70 case: Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 127.

Page 83 What the censors did not realize:Natalya Serova, interview, ibid., p. 621.

Page 83 a new election law: http://pravo.levonevsky.org/baza/soviet/sssr1440.htm. Accessed Jan. 17, 2011.

Page 83 A committee called Election-89:A flyer put out by the committee Election-89; reproduced in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 139–40.

Page 84 “I have a dream”:Anatoly Sobchak, Zhila-Byla Kommunisticheskaya partiya , pp. 45–48, cited in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 623.

Page 85 “Get that away from me”:Yury Afanasiev, interviewed by Yevgeni Kiselev on Echo Moskvy, 2008. http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/all/548798-echo/. Accessed Jan. 18, 2011.

Page 86 Tens, possibly hundreds, of thousands:Alexander Nikishin, “Pokhorony akademika A. D. Sakharova,” Znamya , no. 5 (1990), pp. 178–88.

Page 86 Thousands of people fell into formation:“A. D. Sakharov,” Voskreseniye , vol. 33, no. 65. http://piter.anarhist.org/fevral12.htm. Accessed Jan. 18, 2011.

Page 87 his last time up on the podium:Alexander Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 453.

Page 87 “The following day”:Marina Salye, interview, 2008, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 615–16.

Page 88 she needed immunity from prosecution:Ibid.

Page 89 “That is not your seat”:Igor Kucherenko, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 556.

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