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. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia is a 2014 book by Peter Pomerantsev about 21st century Russian history. He is the author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible. 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 U.S. When it came out in 2014, Peter Pomerantsev’s acclaimed Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible revealed a safely distant Moscow where facts were expendable and spectacle had upstaged. Peter Pomerantsev is an award-winning TV producer and a contributor to the London Review. 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 twentieth-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 twenty-first-century Russia. It is translated into over a dozen languages and was dramatized on BBC Radio 4. In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. His book on Russian propaganda, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, won the 2016 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the Samuel Johnson, Guardian First Book, Pushkin House and Gordon Burns Prizes.

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