nothing is true and everything is possible by peter pomerantsev

This is not a scholarly treatise on the culture or geopolitics of Russia. I really enjoyed this book, from start to finish. But it got my attention in the first few pages and just kept getting more interesting from there. I wasn't sure what to make of this book from the description. As the Putin regime becomes more aggressive, Pomerantsev finds himself drawn further into the system.ĭazzling yet piercingly insightful, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible is an unforgettable voyage into a country spinning from decadence into madness.Ī Great Book That Took Me Totally by Surprise 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 20th 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 21st-century Russia. In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show.

Nothing is true and everything is possible by peter pomerantsev