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Keyword: Masha Gessen Archives - NYU Jordan Center

American Fascism: Lessons from Russia

Eliot Borenstein Monday, November 21st, 2016



Putin is not a fascist, in part because he does not need to be. Trump ran a consistently fascist campaign.

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Penile Servitude and the Police State

Anastasia Kayiatos Wednesday, November 20th, 2013



Sunday before last, on the drizzly police holiday, Petersburg performance artist Petr Pavlensky (b. 1984) sat stark naked in Moscow’s sacred center and nailed his scrotum to the cold cobblestones of Red Square.

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Ksenia Sobchak, puzzled by sexism

Eliot Borenstein Wednesday, October 24th, 2012



Is it possible to be disappointed in Ksenia Sobchak?

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Stories Not About Putin, or Masha Gessen Bikes to the Kremlin

Eliot Borenstein Monday, September 17th, 2012


Authoritarian Fun Fact: when the political culture and mechanisms of power all revolve around one man (sexist language intended), the accidental consequences of that man’s actions can be both disheartening and hilarious (when they are not tragic and reprehensible).

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