Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev

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This is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, where life is seen as a whirling, glamorous masquerade where identities can be switched and all values are changeable'- |c Provided by publisher. |a 'A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st-century Russia: into the lives of oligarchs convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, Bohemian theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators, and playboy revolutionaries. |a Reality show Russia - Cracks in the Kremlin matrix - Forms of delirium. |a Includes bibliographical references (page 241). |a Nothing's true and everything's possible : |b the surreal heart of the new Russia |a Nothing is true and everything is possible : |b the surreal heart of the new Russia / |c Peter Pomerantsev. Dazzling yet piercingly insightful, 'Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible' is an unforgettable voyage into a country spinning from decadence into madness.|a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d IG# |d YDXCP |d OCLCQ |d OCO |d E3V As the Putin regime becomes more aggressive, Pomerantsev finds himself drawn further into the system. 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. When British producer Peter Pomerantsev plunges into the booming Russian TV industry, he gains access to every nook and corrupt cranny of the country. 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. 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. In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. Peter Pomerantsev spoke about his book, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, at Politics & Prose on Wednesday December 3, 2014.

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev