Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible The Surreal Heart of the New Russia |
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| Author:
| Pomerantsev, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-1-322-54902-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | PublicAffairs
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $25.99 |
Book Description:
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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 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...
More Description"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"--