Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Gessen, Masha

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“Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ...
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Paperback
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0 lbs
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9781594632198

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594632197
ISBN-13
9781594632198
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167860038

Product Key Features

Book Title
Words Will Break Cement : the Passion of Pussy Riot
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Genres & Styles / Punk, World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Political Process / Political Advocacy, Political Freedom
Genre
Music, Political Science
Author
Masha Gessen
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-046520
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Praise for WORDS WILL BREAK CEMENT: THE PASSION OF PUSSY RIOT "Urgent … damning … Much here will be new to the American reader. All of it is infuriating." Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times "The fullest account so far of the Pussy Riot story… A moving object lesson in the power of art - perhaps especially messy and exuberant art - to rise above repression and have the last, cement-breaking word." Sara Marcus , Los Angeles Times "Valuable for its insights into the modern cultural history of Russia, with all its idealistic muddles, dead-ends and false starts … ideal for those curious about the country behind the Games." The Economist "Pussy Riot is a global cause célèbre, and now Gessen-prickly, frank, precise, and sharply witty-provides the first in-depth look at this story-in-progress" Booklist (starred review) "Based on interviews with Pussy Riot members (including those arrested and others in the group), their families, friends, and attorneys, Gessen puts their protest and arrests in the context of post-Soviet, Putin-era Russia's culture and society… Recommended to readers in feminist studies, those following ­Putin's Russia, and all who study protest art." Library Journal Praise for THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE: THE UNLIKELY RISE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN "Gessen has shown remarkable courage… [An] unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." The Wall Street Journal "[Gessen] shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin's story… Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." Foreign Affairs "Illuminating… It is with [the] explosive revelations that Gessen truly excels… An electrifying read from what can only be described as an incredibly brave writer." Columbia Journalism Review "Part psychological profile, part conspiracy study. As a Moscow native who has written perceptively for both Russian and Western publications, Gessen knows the cultures and pathologies of Russia… [and has] a delicious command of the English language… A fiercely independent journalist… Gessen's armchair psychoanalysis of Putin is speculative. But it is a clever and sometimes convincing speculation, based on a close reading of Putin's own inadvertently revealing accounts of his life, and on interviews with people who knew Putin before he mattered." The New York Times Book Review "Absorbing." The New Yorker "Powerful and gracefully written." The San Francisco Chronicle, Praise for WORDS WILL BREAK CEMENT: THE PASSION OF PUSSY RIOT "Urgent … damning … Much here will be new to the American reader. All of it is infuriating." Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times "Valuable for its insights into the modern cultural history of Russia, with all its idealistic muddles, dead-ends and false starts … ideal for those curious about the country behind the Games." The Economist Praise for THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE: THE UNLIKELY RISE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN "Gessen has shown remarkable courage… [An] unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." The Wall Street Journal "[Gessen] shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin's story… Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." Foreign Affairs "Illuminating… It is with [the] explosive revelations that Gessen truly excels… An electrifying read from what can only be described as an incredibly brave writer." Columbia Journalism Review "Part psychological profile, part conspiracy study. As a Moscow native who has written perceptively for both Russian and Western publications, Gessen knows the cultures and pathologies of Russia… [and has] a delicious command of the English language… A fiercely independent journalist… Gessen's armchair psychoanalysis of Putin is speculative. But it is a clever and sometimes convincing speculation, based on a close reading of Putin's own inadvertently revealing accounts of his life, and on interviews with people who knew Putin before he mattered." The New York Times Book Review "Absorbing." The New Yorker "Powerful and gracefully written." The San Francisco Chronicle, Praise for WORDS WILL BREAK CEMENT: THE PASSION OF PUSSY RIOT "Urgent … damning … Much here will be new to the American reader. All of it is infuriating." Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times "The fullest account so far of the Pussy Riot story… A moving object lesson in the power of art - perhaps especially messy and exuberant art - to rise above repression and have the last, cement-breaking word." Sara Marcus , Los Angeles Times "Valuable for its insights into the modern cultural history of Russia, with all its idealistic muddles, dead-ends and false starts … ideal for those curious about the country behind the Games." The Economist "A compulsively readable book that explains in unflinching terms the tragedy that is modern Russia… Words Will Break Cement is an instant classic, destined to take its place with Solzhenitsyn's writings about the Gulag... one comes away…marveling at the courage of the Pussy Riot members making a stand against tyranny while demonstrating the willingness to pay a steep price" New York Journal of Books "Pussy Riot is a global cause célèbre, and now Gessen-prickly, frank, precise, and sharply witty-provides the first in-depth look at this story-in-progress" Booklist (starred review) "Based on interviews with Pussy Riot members (including those arrested and others in the group), their families, friends, and attorneys, Gessen puts their protest and arrests in the context of post-Soviet, Putin-era Russia's culture and society… Recommended to readers in feminist studies, those following ­Putin's Russia, and all who study protest art." Library Journal Praise for THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE: THE UNLIKELY RISE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN "Gessen has shown remarkable courage… [An] unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." The Wall Street Journal "[Gessen] shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin's story… Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." Foreign Affairs "Illuminating… It is with [the] explosive revelations that Gessen truly excels… An electrifying read from what can only be described as an incredibly brave writer." Columbia Journalism Review "Part psychological profile, part conspiracy study. As a Moscow native who has written perceptively for both Russian and Western publications, Gessen knows the cultures and pathologies of Russia… [and has] a delicious command of the English language… A fiercely independent journalist… Gessen's armchair psychoanalysis of Putin is speculative. But it is a clever and sometimes convincing speculation, based on a close reading of Putin's own inadvertently revealing accounts of his life, and on interviews with people who knew Putin before he mattered." The New York Times Book Review "Absorbing." The New Yorker "Powerful and gracefully written." The San Francisco Chronicle, Praise for THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE: THE UNLIKELY RISE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN "Gessen has shown remarkable courage... [An] unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." The Wall Street Journal "[Gessen] shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin's story... Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." Foreign Affairs "Illuminating... It is with [the] explosive revelations that Gessen truly excels... An electrifying read from what can only be described as an incredibly brave writer." Columbia Journalism Review "Part psychological profile, part conspiracy study. As a Moscow native who has written perceptively for both Russian and Western publications, Gessen knows the cultures and pathologies of Russia... [and has] a delicious command of the English language... A fiercely independent journalist... Gessen's armchair psychoanalysis of Putin is speculative. But it is a clever and sometimes convincing speculation, based on a close reading of Putin's own inadvertently revealing accounts of his life, and on interviews with people who knew Putin before he mattered." The New York Times Book Review "Absorbing." The New Yorker "Powerful and gracefully written." The San Francisco Chronicle, Praise for THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE: THE UNLIKELY RISE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN "Gessen has shown remarkable courage… [An] unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." The Wall Street Journal "[Gessen] shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin's story… Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." Foreign Affairs "Illuminating… It is with [the] explosive revelations that Gessen truly excels… An electrifying read from what can only be described as an incredibly brave writer." Columbia Journalism Review "Part psychological profile, part conspiracy study. As a Moscow native who has written perceptively for both Russian and Western publications, Gessen knows the cultures and pathologies of Russia… [and has] a delicious command of the English language… A fiercely independent journalist… Gessen's armchair psychoanalysis of Putin is speculative. But it is a clever and sometimes convincing speculation, based on a close reading of Putin's own inadvertently revealing accounts of his life, and on interviews with people who knew Putin before he mattered." The New York Times Book Review "Absorbing." The New Yorker "Powerful and gracefully written." The San Francisco Chronicle, Praise for WORDS WILL BREAK CEMENT: THE PASSION OF PUSSY RIOT "Urgent … damning … Much here will be new to the American reader. All of it is infuriating." Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times "Remarkable…Masha Gessen [is] one of the most important activists and journalists Russia has known in a generation… disquieting, moving, and closely reported." David Remnick, The New Yorker "The fullest account so far of the Pussy Riot story… A moving object lesson in the power of art - perhaps especially messy and exuberant art - to rise above repression and have the last, cement-breaking word." Sara Marcus , Los Angeles Times "Valuable for its insights into the modern cultural history of Russia, with all its idealistic muddles, dead-ends and false starts … ideal for those curious about the country behind the Games." The Economist "A compelling and eloquent account of current events." The Christian Science Monitor "A compulsively readable book that explains in unflinching terms the tragedy that is modern Russia… Words Will Break Cement is an instant classic, destined to take its place with Solzhenitsyn's writings about the Gulag... one comes away…marveling at the courage of the Pussy Riot members making a stand against tyranny while demonstrating the willingness to pay a steep price" New York Journal of Books "The significance of Words Will Break Cement ...is its demonstration that Pussy Riot''s rambunctious confrontations with the authorities are the result of several years of growing frustration with Putin''s rule...The genius of Pussy Riot...has been to employ guerilla street theater and a sense of humor along with unbridled profanityall the better to skewer the pretensions of power and privilege Putin insists are his due... Words Will Break Cement makes clear that Pussy Riot is more than just a small group of disorderly anarchists." New York Times Book Review "Gessen offers a lively and sympathetic portrait of the three women at the center of the storm… keenly observed and often moving." The Guardian "[An] angry, clear and intimate look at the women behind Pussy Riot." The Sunday Times "Pussy Riot is a global cause célèbre, and now Gessen-prickly, frank, precise, and sharply witty-provides the first in-depth look at this story-in-progress" Booklist (starred review) "Based on interviews with Pussy Riot members (including those arrested and others in the group), their families, friends, and attorneys, Gessen puts their protest and arrests in the context of post-Soviet, Putin-era Russia's culture and society… Recommended to readers in feminist studies, those following ­Putin's Russia, and all who study protest art." Library Journal Praise for THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE: THE UNLIKELY RISE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN "Gessen has shown remarkable courage… [An] unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." The Wall Street Journal "[Gessen] shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin's story… Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." Foreign Affairs "Illuminating… It is with [the] explosive revelations that Gessen truly excels… An electrifying read from what can only be described as an incredibly brave writer." Columbia Journalism Review "Part psychological profile, part conspiracy study. As a Moscow native who has written perceptively for both Russian and Western publications, Gessen knows the cultures and pathologies of Russia… [and has] a delicious command of the English language… A fiercely independent journalist… Gessen's armchair psychoanalysis of Putin is speculative. But it is a clever and sometimes convincing speculation, based on a close reading of Putin's own inadvertently revealing accounts of his life, and on interviews with people who knew Putin before he mattered." The New York Times Book Review "Absorbing." The New Yorker "Powerful and gracefully written." The San Francisco Chronicle, Praise for WORDS WILL BREAK CEMENT: THE PASSION OF PUSSY RIOT "Urgent … damning … Much here will be new to the American reader. All of it is infuriating." Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times "Remarkable…Masha Gessen [is] one of the most important activists and journalists Russia has known in a generation… disquieting, moving, and closely reported." David Remnick, The New Yorker "The fullest account so far of the Pussy Riot story… A moving object lesson in the power of art - perhaps especially messy and exuberant art - to rise above repression and have the last, cement-breaking word." Sara Marcus , Los Angeles Times "Valuable for its insights into the modern cultural history of Russia, with all its idealistic muddles, dead-ends and false starts … ideal for those curious about the country behind the Games." The Economist "A compulsively readable book that explains in unflinching terms the tragedy that is modern Russia… Words Will Break Cement is an instant classic, destined to take its place with Solzhenitsyn's writings about the Gulag... one comes away…marveling at the courage of the Pussy Riot members making a stand against tyranny while demonstrating the willingness to pay a steep price" New York Journal of Books "Pussy Riot is a global cause célèbre, and now Gessen-prickly, frank, precise, and sharply witty-provides the first in-depth look at this story-in-progress" Booklist (starred review) "Based on interviews with Pussy Riot members (including those arrested and others in the group), their families, friends, and attorneys, Gessen puts their protest and arrests in the context of post-Soviet, Putin-era Russia's culture and society… Recommended to readers in feminist studies, those following ­Putin's Russia, and all who study protest art." Library Journal Praise for THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE: THE UNLIKELY RISE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN "Gessen has shown remarkable courage… [An] unflinching indictment of the most powerful man in Russia." The Wall Street Journal "[Gessen] shines a piercing light into every dark corner of Putin's story… Fascinating, hard-hitting reading." Foreign Affairs "Illuminating… It is with [the] explosive revelations that Gessen truly excels… An electrifying read from what can only be described as an incredibly brave writer." Columbia Journalism Review "Part psychological profile, part conspiracy study. As a Moscow native who has written perceptively for both Russian and Western publications, Gessen knows the cultures and pathologies of Russia… [and has] a delicious command of the English language… A fiercely independent journalist… Gessen's armchair psychoanalysis of Putin is speculative. But it is a clever and sometimes convincing speculation, based on a close reading of Putin's own inadvertently revealing accounts of his life, and on interviews with people who knew Putin before he mattered." The New York Times Book Review "Absorbing." The New Yorker "Powerful and gracefully written." The San Francisco Chronicle
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092/2
Synopsis
From National Book Award winner Masha Gessen, the heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies. On February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses, tights, and balaclavas, they performed a "punk prayer" beseeching the "Mother of God" to "get rid of Putin." They were quickly shut down by security, and in the weeks and months that followed, three of the women were arrested and tried, and two were sentenced to a remote prison colony. But the incident captured international headlines, and footage of it went viral. People across the globe recognized not only a fierce act of political confrontation but also an inspired work of art that, in a time and place saturated with lies, found a new way to speak the truth. Masha Gessen's riveting account tells how such a phenomenon came about. Drawing on her exclusive, extensive access to the members of Pussy Riot and their families and associates, she reconstructs the fascinating personal journeys that transformed a group of young women into artists with a shared vision, gave them the courage and imagination to express it unforgettably, and endowed them with the strength to endure the devastating loneliness and isolation that have been the price of their triumph.
LC Classification Number
ML421.P88G47 2014

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