Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen is the author of Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy and The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. She is a writer in residence at Oberlin College
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