Nothing is true and everything is possible : the surreal heart of the new Russia /

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Author / Creator:Pomerantsev, Peter, author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York : PublicAffairs, [2014]
Description:vii, 241 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10108824
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Varying Form of Title:Nothing's true and everything's possible : the surreal heart of the new Russia
Surreal heart of the new Russia
ISBN:9781610394550 (hbk.)
1610394550 (hbk.)
9781610394567 (ebk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (page 241).
Summary:"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"--