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The Anatomy Of Autocracy: Masha Gessen

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English - January 28, 2021 05:01 - 43 minutes - 41.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 14.4K ratings
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Russian-born journalist Masha Gessen talks to us about how the rule of the people becomes the rule of the one, the role of the media, and what we can learn about the building blocks of autocracy from the work of philosopher and writer Hannah Arendt, and what history tells us are the ways to dismantle it.

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