Surviving Autocracy

In this book, Masha Gessen provides an incisive overview of the calamitous trajectory of the past few years under the Trump presidency.

Gessen highlights the corrosion of the media, the judiciary, and cultural norms, and tells the story of how a short few years have changed the American identity.

The book is both an inventory of the ravages caused by autocratic tendencies and a beacon to recovery or enduring and resisting these assaults.

Gessen's unique cross-cultural fluency, derived from her Soviet childhood and decades covering totalitarianism in Russia, offers essential insights into the signs of autocracy and its impact on American society.