Summary of Masha Gessen's The Man Without a Face

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 In 1999, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s president, was very ill. He had suffered several heart attacks and had undergone open-heart surgery soon after he was elected for a second term in 1996. He was not half the politician he had been, and his popularity rating was dipping into the single digits. #2 After the fall of communism in Russia, the country was battered, traumatized, and disappointed. The Yeltsin government