Words Will Break Cement The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen review

The Telegraph
Wednesday 19th February, 2014

addresses in the first part of Words Will Break Cement: the Passion of Pussy Riot. As she introduces the women imprisoned for performing a “punk prayer” in Moscow’s main cathedral, the first thing to note is that they are extraordinarily young. Theirs is the generation born at the fag-end of the Soviet empire; their backstories feature the standard troubles of the era – broken families, alcoholism, early motherhood. They are Twitter and YouTube natives, yet mixed in with the modernity is an old strain of dissidence, and a very Russian, public-spirited recklessness.

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