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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 wild and bizarre 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.
Michiko Kakutani is a book critic.
More books 2/2 Lenin's Tomb:The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. David Remnick Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible:Surreal Heart of the New Russia. Peter Pomerantsev The Future Is History:How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. Masha Gessen Collected Tales. Nikolai Gogol https://t.co/SJj4bUSI8i
Assistant Prof. Public Admin. @UVic working on regional development & sustainability transitions. Associate Dir. @IesvicU, Chair @UvicLocalGovHub. Anti-Fascist.
Watching interviews from the street in Moscow you see people convinced that someone invaded Russia and not the other way around. This remarkable cognitive dissonance is the very reason that Peter Pomerantsev named his book "Nothing is true and everything is possible".
"This remains one of the best (and most beautifully written) books on Putin and modern Russia in recent years…It ably gives a sense of what has and is being lost."