Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New RussiaIn the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, suicidal supermodels, Hell’s Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors, and oligarch revolutionaries: welcome to the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first-century Russia. It is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, home to a form of dictatorship—far subtler than twentieth-century strains—that is rapidly rising to challenge the West. When British producer Peter Pomerantsev plunges into the booming Russian TV industry, he gains access to every nook and corrupt cranny of the country. He is brought to smoky rooms for meetings with propaganda gurus running the nerve-center of the Russian media machine, and visits Siberian mafia-towns and the salons of the international super-rich in London and the US. As the Putin regime becomes more aggressive, Pomerantsev finds himself drawn further into the system. Dazzling yet piercingly insightful, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible is an unforgettable voyage into a country spinning from decadence into madness. |
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User Review - john257hopper - LibraryThingThis is a simultaneously fascinating, in places horrifying and overall quite depressing account of Post-Soviet Russia, especially under Putin since 2000. One of the key takeaways is the immense and ... Read full review
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User Review - PDCRead - LibraryThingRussia is an enigma. For the last over a century it has been under some form of autocratic control, first with the Tsars, then the communists and after a brief dabble with democracy, now has an ... Read full review
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| Title | Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia |
| Author | Peter Pomerantsev |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | PublicAffairs, 2014 |
| ISBN | 1610394550, 9781610394550 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union Political Science / World / Russian & Former Soviet Union Social Science / Popular Culture |
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