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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 Scary Thought-Provoking Inspiring Authoritarianism Soviet Union

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""" 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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A must read for everyone in the West. All your worst fears about Russia are true and if you don't have any you must stop being so naive...

F*cking helllll

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The book is well narrated. Russia appears to be an appalling place to live and you cannot help but feel sorry for the ordinary people who live there. I recommend it to everybody.

Great Book

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A real fascinating look at a westerners view of Russia, especially the elites and wannabes. The last three chapters in particular help orientate the reader to the international moves Putin makes and why and how.

Fascinating

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Peter Pomerantsev's account of today's Russia reads like a bizarre fever-dream of a world cut loose from all its moorings since the downfall of the Soviet Union, equally shaped by shadowy "political technologists", strange cults, corruption (at state and individual level), mysticism, nationalism and hyper-capitalism. Through a series of stories based on his life in Russia as a film maker, Pomerantsev gives an insight into how modern Russia works which will be strange and incomprehensible to most Western readers, but nonetheless a vitally important account of how this renewed superpower came to be and what it might mean for all of us. Read with characteristic vitality, engagement and vividness by the excellent Leighton Pugh.

A fascinating grotesquerie of modern Russia

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An entertaining, bizzare and often scary look into modern Russia. Originally I wasn't sure of the Narrator as his accents seemed very outlandish and comical but then when you listen to the stories, being outlandish and almost comical is exactly what this book's reader should be.

Very interesting, almost unbelievable

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