Sobrevivir a la autocracia

It was the 2016 elections and the speech, gestures and comments of one of the candidates for the US presidency were unprecedented. Forty-eight hours before Donald Trump was elected as president of the United States, Masha Gessen's essay "Autocracy: Rules for Survival" went viral. Today that essay, expanded and nuanced, is this book. Gessen brings here a unique perspective, inherited from her Soviet childhood and from more than two decades of witnessing to Russian totalitarianism. All this gives him a unique worldview when analyzing the lines that delimit the galloping autocracy that the United States lives today. This controversial and incisive book analyzes how this political organization cuts across all spheres (the media, the cultural, the judicial...) and ends up affecting an entire society, doomed to survive at the orders of a single individual.