Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
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...
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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 ne
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781610394550 (1610394550)
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
What a depressing book. A Russian business woman is arrested by the Russian police because her company makes a chemical that is a forbidden drug. No actually, she has all the officialv permits to manufacture the chemical, she's been doing it for years and it's not a drug. She is still convicted and ...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, journalism, nonfiction, politics, gangsters, games-people-play, filthy-lucre, published-2014, slavic, sleazy, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy, lifestyles-deathstyles, true-grime, under-500-ratings, tbr-busting-2015 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Traveller Recommended for: BBC Ra...
Received a copy of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev through the First Reads Giveaway program in exchange for an honest review "This isn't a country in transition but some sort of postmodern dictatorship that uses the language and institutions of democratic capitalism f...
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