06558cam a2201045 i 4500 nothingistrueeve0000pome CaSfIA 20250728072232.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 140606s2014 nyu ob 000 0deng 2014018638 (OCoLC)893686187 DLC eng rda DLC IG# YDXCP OCO VP@ CDX IXA BTCTA JRU CHVBK NDS NYP S3O IDU OCLCO SFR OCLCQ OCLCA MYL XQM OCLCF S#L OCL OCLCO OCLCA CSA WCM CaSfIA 9781610394550 (hardcover) 1610394550 (hardcover) 9781610394567 (electronic) 9781610396004 1610396006 pcc e-ru--- HN530.2.A8 P665 2014 306.0947 23 HIS032000 SOC022000 bisacsh HIS032000 Pomerantsev, Peter. Nothing is true and everything is possible : the surreal heart of the new Russia / Peter Pomerantsev. First edition. New York : PublicAffairs, [2014] 1 online resource (vii, 241 pages) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (page 241). "Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible is 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. 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 a completely new type of society where nothing is true and everything is possible--yet it is also home to a new form of authoritarianism, built not on oppression but avarice and temptation. Peter Pomerantsev, ethnically Russian but raised in England, came to Moscow work in the fast-growing television and film industry. The job took him into every nook and corrupt cranny of the country: from meetings in smoky rooms with propaganda gurus through to distant mafia-towns in Siberia. As he becomes more successful in his career, he gets invited to the best parties, becomes friend to oligarchs and strippers alike, and grows increasingly uneasy as he is drawn into the mechanics of Putin's post-modern dictatorship. In Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, we meet Vitaliy, a Mafia boss proudly starring in a film about his own crimes; Zinaida, a Chechen prostitute who parties in Moscow while her sister is drawn towards becoming a Jihadi; and many more. These 21st century Russians grew up among Soviet propaganda they never believed in, became disillusioned with democracy after the fall of communism, and are now filled with a sense of cynicism and enlightenment. Pomerantsev captures the bling effervescence of oil-boom Russia, as well as the steadily deleterious effects of all this flash and cynicism on the country's social fabric. A long-nascent conflict is flaring up in Russia as a new generation of dissidents takes to the streets, determined to defy the Kremlin and fight for a society where beliefs and values actually count for something. The stories recounted in Nothing is True and Everything is Possible are wild and bizarre and lavishly entertaining, but they also reveal the strange and sober truth of a society's return from post-Soviet freedom to a new and more complex form of tyranny"-- Provided by publisher. Act I: Reality Show Russia -- Act II: Cracks in the Kremlin Matrix -- Act III: Forms of Delirium -- Author's Note. Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991- Russia (Federation) History 1991- Biography. Interviews Russia (Federation) Social change Russia (Federation) Social problems Russia (Federation) Power (Social sciences) Russia (Federation) Corruption Russia (Federation) Authoritarianism Social aspects Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation) Economic conditions 1991- HISTORY Europe Russia & the Former Soviet Union. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture. bisacsh Sozialer Wandel gnd Oligarchie gnd Autoritärer Staat gnd Korruption gnd Soziale Probleme gnd Russland gnd Sociala förhållanden. sao Ekonomiska förhållanden. sao Samhällsförändring. sao Korruption. sao Makt (samhällsvetenskap) sao Ryssland. Corruption. fast (OCoLC)fst01352550 Economic history. fast (OCoLC)fst00901974 Interviews. fast (OCoLC)fst00977644 Power (Social sciences) fast (OCoLC)fst01074219 Social change. fast (OCoLC)fst01122310 Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01919811 Social problems. fast (OCoLC)fst01122778 Russia (Federation) fast (OCoLC)fst01262050 Since 1991 fast Interviews. lcgft. lcgft Interviews. lcgft Interviews. fast (OCoLC)fst01423832 Biography. fast (OCoLC)fst01423686 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 https://archive.org/details/nothingistrueeve0000pome Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26707384M Additional information and access via Open Library nothingistrueeve0000pome ark:/13960/t5n94rg8x