Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
PublicAffairs · Print & ebook · November 10, 2015
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show “A gripping and unsettling account.” —Washington Post 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.
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- Who it’s for
- A sharp, unsettling look at how Russian culture and power keep blurring into each other.
- Genres
- Russian & Post-Soviet Politics, Propaganda, Post-Soviet Russia
- Published
- PublicAffairs, November 10, 2015
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A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show “A gripping and unsettling account.” —Washington Post 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.
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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.
Surreal State
A sharp, unsettling look at how Russian culture and power keep blurring into each other.
Come here for
- Russian lit and power, seen through a slippery new-Russia lens
- insight with a little hard-edged surrealism
Expect
- Specialist angle, not primer
- Literary criticism braided with history
Where it sits
| Russian & Post-Soviet Politics | 55% |
|---|---|
| Post-Soviet Russia | 51% |
| Propaganda | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Russian History
- Fascism & Totalitarianism
- Propaganda
- Russian & Post-Soviet Politics
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- Pop Culture Studies
- Authors
- Peter Pomerantsev, John Curless, PublicAffairs
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Published
- November 10, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Russian History