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 90 the first meeting of the first democratically elected:Alexander Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , online version only, pp. 568–69.

Page 90 “It was fantastical”:Viktor Voronkov, interview, 2008, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 463.

Page 90 “an acute sense of democracy”:Nikolai Girenko, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 473.

Page 90 “The Mariinsky took on the look”:Viktor Veniaminov, memoir, Avtobiografiya Peterburgskogo gorsoveta , p. 620, cited in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 449.

Page 90 “People had so longed to be heard”:Bella Kurkova, memoir, in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 552.

Page 91 “I wish someone”:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.

Page 91 “could derail a working meeting”:Vladimir Gelman, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 471.

Page 92 he opposed changing the name:Dmitry Gubin, “Interview predsedatelya Lenosveta A. A. Sobchaka,” Ogonyok , no. 28 (1990), cited in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 269.

Page 92 honored their agreement:Alexander Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 453–54.

Page 92 “We realized our mistake”:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010; Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, pp. 453–54.

Page 93 “There were officers”:Bakatin, p. 138.

Page 94 “The KGB, as it existed”:Ibid., pp. 36–37.

Page 95 he planned to start writing a dissertation:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 95 “I remember the scene well”:Ibid.

Page 96 “Putin was most certainly”:Anatoly Sobchak, interview, Literaturnaya Gazeta , February 2000, pp. 23–29, cited in Anatoly Sobchak: Kakim on byl (Moscow: Gamma-Press, 2007), p. 20.

Page 97 A former colleague:Author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 98 “I told them, ‘I have received’”:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 98 the Committee for Constitutional Oversight:Komitet Konstitutsionnogo Nadzora SSSR, 1989–91. http://www.panorama.ru/ks/iz8991.shtml. Accessed March 8, 2011.

Page 98 the KGB ignored it:Bakatin, 135.

Page 98 conducted round-the-clock surveillance:Ibid.

Page 98 he claimed not to report to the KGB:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 99 “It was a very difficult decision”:Ibid.

FIVE. A COUP AND A CRUSADE

Page 102 pogroms broke out in the streets:“Playing the Communal Card: Communal Violence and Human Rights,” Human Rights Watch report. http://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1995/communal/. Accessed Jan. 26, 2011.

Page 102 ration cards: Leningradskaya pravda , Nov. 28, 1990, cited in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 299.

Page 103 The city came perilously close:Vladimir Monakhov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 574.

Page 103 Former dissident and political prisoner Yuli Rybakov:Yuli Rybakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 610.

Page 104 sugar disappeared:Vladimir Belyakov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 425–26.

Page 105 “And we get there”:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.

Page 106 Some people even claimed to know the date:Alexander Konanykhin. http://www.snob.ru/go-to-comment/305858. Accessed March 10, 2011.

Page 108 promises to the people:“Obrashcheniye k sovetskomu narodu,” in Y. Kazarin and B. Yakovlev, Smert’ zagovora: Belaya kniga (Moscow: Novosti, 1992), pp. 12–16.

Page 108 “taking into account the needs”:Kazarin and Yakovlev, Smert’ zagovora, p. 7.

Page 109 Igor Artemyev:Igor Artemyev, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 407–8.

Page 109 no state of emergency:Alexander Vinnikov, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 454–55.

Page 109 a “military coup”:Igor Artemyev, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 408.

Page 110 “We told him that we are planning to go”:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.

Page 110 the arrest did not take place:Bakatin, p. 21.

Page 110 Sobchak called Leningrad:A. Golovkin and A. Chernov, interview with Anatoly Sobchak, Moskovskiye novosti , Aug. 26, 1991, quoted in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 627.

Page 111 “Why did I do so?”Sobchak, memoir, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 627.

Page 111 Moscow’s city council:Kazarin and Yakovlev, p. 131.

Page 111 ordered city services:G. Popov, “Zayavleniye mera goroda Moskvy,” in Kazarin and Yakovlev, pp. 68–69.

Page 111 Moscow’s deputy mayor, Yuri Luzhkov:Center Labyrinth, Luzhkov biography. http://www.anticompromat.org/luzhkov/luzhkbio.html. Accessed March 13, 2011.

Page 112 the Mariinsky Palace:Yuli Rybakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 612.

Page 112 “We call on the people of Russia”:B. Yeltsin, I. Silayev, and R. Khasbulatov, “K grazhdanam Rossii,” in Kazarin and Yakovlev, p. 42.

Page 112 He was terrified:Vyacheslav Shcherbakov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 681.

Page 112 “What the hell did he do?”Ibid.; author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010; text of decree as dictated by Rutskoy and as read by Sobchak, provided by Salye.

Page 114 “the flag was on a corner”:Elena Zelinskaya, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 505.

Page 115 the coup was not what it had seemed:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.

Page 116 “I had pushed five chairs”:Shcherbakov, in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , p. 683.

Page 117 “But I was not a KGB officer”:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 117 ”Kryuchkov simply would not”:Author interview with Arseniy Roginsky, Moscow, June 20, 2008.

Page 118 The meat was delivered:Letter from Marina Salye to Chief Comptroller of the Russian Federation Yuri Boldyrev, dated March 25, 1992, unpublished.

Page 119 Boldyrev had written a letter:Letter from Yuri Boldyrev to Petr Aven, dated March 13, 1992, document #105-177/n.

Page 119 a man with an empty office:Author interview with Irene Commeaut, Paris, June 2010.

Page 119 eager, curious, and intellectually engaged:Ilya Kolmanovsky interview with Alexander Margolis, St. Petersburg, June 2008.

Page 119 “The Putins had a dog”:Marina Yentaltseva, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.

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