Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow - LRBP

Idov, Michael

ISBN 10: 0374223157 / ISBN 13: 9780374223151

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2018

About this Item

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2018. First edition, first impression hardcover book in Very Good condition; clean and square; very light bumps to the fore corners. Dust jacket in Very Good condition; little shelf wear and wrinkling around the edges and corners; no rips or tears; not price clipped. 21090028, 14 oz, Col-15.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dressed Up for a Riot: Misadventures in Putin's Moscow - LRBP
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374223157
• ISBN 13: 9780374223151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

A memoir of revolution, reaction, and Russian men’s fashion

In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside―and closely observing―the media and cultural elite of Putin’s Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is fascinated by the political turmoil but nonetheless finds himself pulled in unlikely directions. He becomes a tabloid celebrity, acts in a Russian movie with Snoop Dogg, befriends the members of Pussy Riot, punches an anti-Semitic magazine editor on the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, sells an autobiographical sitcom pilot that is later changed into an anti-American farce, and writes Russia’s top-grossing domestic movie of 2015. Meanwhile, he becomes disillusioned with the splintering opposition to Putin and is briefly attracted to a kind of jaded Putinism lite―until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine thoroughly changes his mind.

In Dressed Up for a Riot, Idov writes openly, sensitively, and stingingly about life in Moscow and his place in a media apparatus that sometimes undermined but more often bolstered a state system defined by cynicism, corruption, and the fanning of fake news. With humor and intelligence, he offers a close-up glimpse of what a declining world power can become.

About the Author

Michael Idov is a staff writer for New York magazine and a frequent contributor of Russian-language columns and criticism to major Moscow publications. Ground Up is his first novel.