Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

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In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show.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 twenty first century Russia 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 twentieth century strains that is rapidly rising to challenge the West.When British producer Peter Pomerantsev plunges into the booming Russian TV industry, he gains access to every nook and corrupt cranny of the country 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 As the Putin regime becomes aggressive, Pomerantsev finds himself drawn further into the system. Best Read Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible [ by ] Peter Pomerantsev [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr If there is no God, everything is permitted Smerdyakov, The Brothers Karamazov Before your eyes rises the hero of Gogol s story who, in a fit of aberration, imagined that he was the King of Spain Such is the fate of all megalomaniacs Joseph Stalin, 1905Who better else than a reality TV producer to describe the future of Russia Mr Pomerantsev worked behind the lens of reality television, and he was involved in creating these few stories which Russian citizens are allowed to digest only If there is no God, everything is permitted Smerdyakov, The Brothers Karamazov Before your eyes rises the hero of Gogol s story who, in a fit of aberration, imagined that he was the King of Spain Such is the fate of all megalomaniacs Joseph Stalin, 1905Who better else than a reality TV producer to describe the future of Russia Mr Pomerantsev worked behind the lens of reality television, and he was involved in creating these few stories which Russian citizens are allowed to digest only positive ones, though But our author stumbles into criminal apparatchiks who write TV scripts, models who are tossed aside and kill themselves, a Kafkaesque legal system for all, even the very rich, and a government which profits off of confusion and refusal to stick to an established line The sort of person who can believe one conspiracy theory and oppose one established authority would believe them all, which is enough to convince the people t...I recently saw a great Russian film, Durak, meaning The fool The protagonist, Dima, lives together with his wife, son and parents in a single apartment in an ordinary Russian town although he works as a plumber, he studies architecture in hope of entering university and improving his situation much to the chagrin of his mother, who doesn t believe that learning alone can get him anywhere One day, the chief of a local repair group is absent and Dmitri is called in his place to in I recently saw a great Russian film, Durak, meaning The fool The protagonist, Dima, lives together with his wife, son and parents in a single apartment in an ordinary Russian town although he works as a plumber, he studies architecture in hope of entering university and improving his situation much to the chagrin of his mother, who doesn t believe that learning alone can get him anywhere One day, the chief of a local repair group is absent and Dmitri is called in his place to investigate a burst pipe in one of the buildings where he discovers ...Russia is an enigma For the last over a century it has been under some form of autocratic control, first with the Tsars, then the communists and after a brief dabble with democracy, now has an elective dictatorship under Putin Each time a new Russian doll is revealed, it is aintense form of what they have always had It is into this new Russia that Pomerantsev, a British TV producer with Russia parents, steps.The Russian TV industry is booming, having removed the shackles of communist pr Russia is an enigma For the last over a century it has been under some form of autocratic control, first with the Tsars, then the communists and after a brief dabble with democracy, now has an elective dictatorship under Putin Each time a new Russian doll is revealed, it is aintense form of what they have always had It is into this new Russia that Pomerantsev, a British TV producer with Russia parents, steps.The Russian TV industry is booming, having removed the shackles of communist propaganda, they now havefreedom to experiment with new shows to entertain and captivate the masses But there is still control the Russian media machine has tentacles running deep into the TV industry, as he discovers when he attends meeting in smoky rooms where he is told exactly what he can and cannot show and always ...view spoiler Bettie s Books hide spoiler 23.05.2016 Anti travelogue on Putin s Russia wins 10,000 Ondaatje prize read about the win hereThe shelving, status updates and star rating constitute how I felt about this book.Nothing is True and Everything is Possible Well Informed Account of Modern RussiaPeter Pomerantsev is one of the most assiduous observers of modern Russia that there is at the moment, who always gets to the heart of the matter with his observations and comment Nothing is True and Everything is Possible is yet another wonderful example of his work and one of the most important commentaries on modern Russia and Moscow of the moment If this were a work of fiction you would think it was a dysto...Adventures is the right word This is exhilarating narrative non fiction based on the author s experiences of over ten years living and working in Russia if it s a referenced academic study you want, this may not be the right place to start I wouldn t be surprised if, to the avid Russia watcher, there s little new here, and that it might trade in cliches one phrase, that unique Moscow mix of tackiness and menace sums it up pretty well But, surprised how little of this I d heard in detail b Adventures is the right word This is exhilarating narrative non fiction based on the author s experiences of over ten years living and working in Russia if it s a referenced academic study you want, this may not be the right place to start I wouldn t be surprised if, to th...This book didn t shock me as much as it probably was supposed to, I guess it makes a stronger impact on a western reader, who hears less about Russia every damn day of his life than I do, or one who lives under the rock or in some fairyland and isn t aware of today s world in general Because of course western world has its own problems for example Donald Trump, gun un control, and other fun things you have, America It s just that in Russia, modern or not, everything comes to gargantuan extre This book didn t shock me as much as it prob...A revealing look at the trippy nightmare that is modern Russia Riveting a bit much by the end and it s hard to keep all of the players and their various incarnations straight but very, very interesting.For the reader that chooses his writing on the elegance of its phrasing, the precision of its language, maybe this isn t a great book Even for the reader who just wants a lively narrative venture maybe this isn t the book In fact, I read an Advance copy, unadorned by notes or index though complete with typos and awkward grammar at points.But for the reader whose idea of Writing consists of witnessing the author engaged in a death struggle with his themes, perhaps even not knowing what a gi For the reader that chooses his writing on the elegance of its phrasing,...The author is a British TV journalist with Russian parents He lived many years in Russia and this books gives insight to some of the people he met The society as a whole can be seen as reflection in the individual stories shown here and it is a bizarre world This isn t a country in transition but some sort of postmodern dictatorship that uses the language and institutions of democratic capitalism for authoritarian ends And further The Kremlin has finally mastered the art of fusing real The author is a British TV journalist with Russian parents He lived many years in Russia and this books gives insight to some of the people he met The society as a whole can be seen as reflection in the individual stories shown here and it is a bizarre world This isn t a country in transition but some sort of postmodern dictatorship that uses the language and institutions of democratic capitalism for authoritarian ends And further The Kremlin has finally mastered the art of fusing reality TV and authoritarianism to keep the great, 140 million strong population entertained, distracted, constantly exposes do geopolitical nightmares, which if repeated enough times can become infectious Russia is not like, not striving to be like and never going to be anything like, the West It is a society that has never, in all its...

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
  • English
  • 19 April 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 256 pages
  • 1610394550
  • Peter Pomerantsev
  • Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible