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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

Adventures in Modern Russia

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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

By: Peter Pomerantsev
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
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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 audiobook - 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.

Winner of the £10,000 Ondaatje Prize, described by judge Kate Adie as an ‘exuberant exposure’, with the ‘grotesque pursuit of money conveyed in glittering, trenchant prose’.

©2015 Peter Pomerantsev (P)2016 Audible, Ltd Economic Conditions Economics Politics & Government Russia Russian & Soviet Social Sciences World Soviet Union Authoritarianism

Critic Reviews

""" riveting portrait of the new Russia."" (Tina Brown)""Pomerantsev is one of the most brilliant observers of Putin's Russia ... an electrifying, terrifying book."" (Anne Applebaum)""Unflinching, tragic and profound."" (AD Miller, author of SNOWDROPS)"
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Pomerantsev’s experience and capacity to reflect on what it means is eloquent and compelling. If you want to understand politics anywhere in the world today... read this book!

Insightful and engaging

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Fascinating and crazy, and ultimately very sad. Traces the history of the anarchic post soviet period and the the doublethink and simulation it gave rise to, and how that bred the conditions for the autocracy and the Ukraine war.

The best book about Putin's Russia

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Fantastic account of contemporary Russia that touches on a great many aspects of modern Russia that ate stitched together to give a mosaic of life under Putin. I'd read it after having read The Oligarchs which Gabe me a good base to understand the backdrop of the book. Loved the Authors sense of humour

Better than I expected, a look under the hood

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