Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia - Softcover

Peter Pomerantsev

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9780571308019: Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571308015 ISBN 13: 9780571308019

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2015

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In 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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About the Author:

Peter Pomeranzev's writing has been praised as the most incisive about Russia. He has written for London Review of Books, Newsweek, Le Monde Diplomatique, El Pais and Internationale. Apart from media he has worked as a consultant for the EU and World Bank on development projects in Russia.

Review:

� "One of the most disturbing books I've read for a very long time... a dizzying tour of Vladimir Putin's Russia, a world of post modern cynicism and corruption." --Andrew Marr

� "A fizzingly impressionistic account of the new Russian elites... irresistible." --Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday

� "This book is one of the finest accounts we have of the grotesque nihilism of [Putin's] system... required reading for anyone seeking to understand Putin's Russia." --Oliver Bullough, The Observer

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