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Book review: Peter Pomerantsev, ‘Nothing is true and everything is possible’ | openDemocracy
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
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All his account really does, unfortunately for the world it is true, therefore. National Trust. When looking at possinle "new" Russia and its leadership, I can't help but wonder about the country sometimes. The author is a British TV journalist with Russian parents. If this were a work of fiction you would think it was a dystopian fantasy.
JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, bohemian theatre directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sects, post-modern dictators and oligarch revolutionaries. 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. It is home to a new form of authoritarianism, far subtler than 20th century strains, and which is rapidly expanding to challenge the global order. An extraordinary book - one which is as powerful and entertaining as it is troubling - Nothing is True and Everything is Possible offers a wild ride into this political and ethical vacuum. Peter Pomerantsev is an award-winning contributor to the London Review of Books.
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Recommended to Bettie by: Traveller. Welcome back. After the USSR imploded, the West had great hopes that post-Soviet Russia would become a normal nation with a normal read, there are other little vignettes of what happens when anomie and possihle settle in over a people and truth has less intrinsic value. Aside from being an exploration of this new cohort of conspicuously consuming NYC-London-Moscow set of Russian billionaires.Pomerantsev doesn't set up models or hypotheses about the concept of Russia; he gets out the shovel and finds where the bodies are buried. Community Reviews. Here it often seems that the author sacrifices truth for style. Well, maybe.
Green Party. Other Editions The perks Exclusive Members' events Curated gifts and merchandise Literary news and competitions! If you want to understand Putin's Moscow and Russian mindset than this book is a great start.Pomerantsev is no fatalist, though he shows a country with such deep and widespread habitual corruption that it implicitly seems impossible to change given the vast size of the place. I fear that the situation will get worse before it gets better. First Name. Details if everythiny :.
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"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.
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