Nothing is true and everything is possible : the surreal heart of the new Russia
(2014)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
306.0947/POMERANTSEV,P

1 Hold on 1 Copy

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 306.0947/POMERANTSEV,P Due: 3/28/2024

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : PublicAffairs, [2014]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

vii, 241 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781610394550 (hbk.), 1610394550 (hbk.), 9781610394550, 1610394550 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Reality show Russia -- Cracks in the Kremlin matrix -- Forms of delirium

"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"--

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