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
“Little Octobrists are future Young Pioneers. Little Octobrists are studious kids. They study hard, love school, and respect their elders. Little Octobrists… — Masha Gessen Hard love 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
Americans voted for Trump. A lot of people in this country feel the system of representative democracy hasn't worked for them for… — Masha Gessen Democracy Copy Share Image
I wanted to show something that Americans don't usually think about when they think about Russia, which is the extreme stratification of… — Masha Gessen Russia Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary. — Masha Gessen About Copy Share Image
I have experienced power as a journalist. On three different occasions, when I wrote about individual immigrants or refugees, the article -… — Masha Gessen Change 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 Either Copy Share Image
Putin, I believe, was actually born to be a KGB agent. And I say born because I think that his father was… — Masha Gessen Believe 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
We have the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church talking about how gay marriage is a sign of the apocalypse, or Russian… — Masha Gessen Apocalypse Copy Share Image
The most difficult and, in some ways, the most rewarding thing I've ever been through was emigrating as a teenager. — Masha Gessen Been 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
I mean, hunger strike is almost a ritual in a Russian prison colony. It actually has been going back to Soviet times.… — Masha Gessen Hunger Copy Share Image
It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe. — Masha Gessen Catastrophe Copy Share Image
To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where… — Masha Gessen Ignorance Copy Share Image
“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European… — Masha Gessen Communication Copy Share Image
The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a… — Masha Gessen Always Copy Share Image
Were there open gays and lesbians before the West started influencing Russia? No, there weren't. In fact, the most out person in… — Masha Gessen Country 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
Here in the U.S. we do have a problem with a president Donald Trump who uses language in two distinctly destructive ways.… — Masha Gessen Language Copy Share Image
Fact-checking is a terrible way to report on Donald Trump's lying . It's like we enter into a dialogue with him. It's… — Masha Gessen Dialogue 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
The law in Russia bans "propaganda of homosexuality," which is defined as dissemination of information that can cause harm to the spiritual… — Masha Gessen Children Copy Share Image
Putin was very careful to gradually sort of rotate people in and out of power, to make sure that he had competent… — Masha Gessen Careful Copy Share Image
