I think that Russian meddling in the election is an important issue. — Masha Gessen Election Copy Share Image
Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid. — Masha Gessen Dictators Copy Share Image
It is so impossible to predict how much influence what you write will have, and what sorts of anxieties and imaginaries it… — Masha Gessen Anxieties Copy Share Image
“Science gradually yielded to propaganda, and as a result propaganda tended more and more to represent itself as science.”4” — Masha Gessen Propaganda Copy Share Image
In war you're either a collaborator or you're a resistor. I mean you don't get to be neutral. — Masha Gessen Collaborator Copy Share Image
“The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.” — Masha Gessen Politics Copy Share Image
Basically, Trump's significant first moves have been twofold. To marginalize the media, and to start dismantling the federal government. — Masha Gessen Basically Copy Share Image
Abstracted hatred is incredibly potent. There's never the risk of having it challenged by the reality of living human beings. — Masha Gessen Hatred Copy Share Image
Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda. — Masha Gessen Important Copy Share Image
Of course, Oliver Stone is not Donald Trump. But he shares with him a certain way of seeing the world and being… — Masha Gessen Donald trump Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of hope for Russia when Putin goes, because I think that the kind of damage that has… — Masha Gessen Country Copy Share Image
Scholars of totalitarianism talk about the importance of this constant movement, this forever war, this need to do battle on behalf of… — Masha Gessen Battle Copy Share Image
I would much rather engage people in a conversation about deregulation and reversals of women's rights and civil rights and LGBT rights… — Masha Gessen Civil rights Copy Share Image
One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge… — Masha Gessen Culture Copy Share Image
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. When that… — Masha Gessen Democracy Copy Share Image
Of course, Putin may well have reasons for wanting Trump to be president - not least Trump's apparent skepticism toward NATO and… — Masha Gessen NATO Copy Share Image
I think some people have blind faith in American institutions without knowing a whole lot about them and think they will stand… — Masha Gessen American Copy Share Image
“Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art -- something that makes… — Masha Gessen Art Copy Share Image
There's not a whole lot of similarity between the two societies, Russian and American. There are similarities behind psychological forces. One thing… — Masha Gessen Country Copy Share Image
Donald Trump clearly doesn't have the intellectual capacity to have a concept of what he's doing. I think he has a very… — Masha Gessen Bully Copy Share Image
There is no law that guarantees press access to the White House. Communication was lessening during the Obama years. There was every… — Masha Gessen Communication Copy Share Image
Take the people facing charges in connection with the protests that occurred on the eve of Vladimir Putin's third-term inauguration, May 6,… — Masha Gessen Activist Copy Share Image
There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as… — Masha Gessen Generation Copy Share Image
One of the most famous lines in contemporary Russian poetry is "Erica makes four copies and that's enough." That's the ethos we're… — Masha Gessen Book Copy Share Image
For Russians in the '90s, there was that sense of not knowing what the future held at all. And coming off a… — Masha Gessen Ability Copy Share Image
“adolescent who expresses dissident opinion more or less vocally can end up in a place like that. Some of the children arrive… — Masha Gessen Children Copy Share Image
Conceit of the anti-gay law in Russia is to protect children, then the people who have the most to fear are LGBT… — Masha Gessen Adopted Copy Share Image
“Marxism in the Soviet Union had been boiled down to the understanding that people—Soviet citizens—were shaped entirely by their society and the… — Masha Gessen Inner conflict Copy Share Image
“In the collective prosecutorial mind our apologies are also apparently characterized as “so-called.” Though I find this insulting. It causes me suffering… — Masha Gessen Caring person Copy Share Image
“One more thing: the regime is a show that conceals what in reality is chaos. What looks orderly and restrictive is in… — Masha Gessen Regime Copy Share Image
“It all fit. The love of power, the focus on Russia to the exclusion of the rest of the world—with an exception… — Masha Gessen Love Copy Share Image
“Entire civilizations in history had ceased to exist. How had life in them felt in the last decades and days? Russia and… — Masha Gessen Energy of life Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. The working… — Masha Gessen American democracy Copy Share Image
