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"Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible is 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. It is a completely new type of society where nothing is true and everything is possible--yet it is also home to a new form of authoritarianism, built not on oppression but avarice and temptation. Peter Pomerantsev, ethnically Russian but raised in England, came to Moscow work in the fast-growing television and film industry. The job took him into every nook and corrupt cranny of the country: from meetings in smoky rooms with
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"En la nueva Rusia, incluso la dictadura se convierte en un reality show. Asesinos a sueldo con alma de artista, aspirantes a directores de teatro convertidos en titiriteros del Kremlin, supermodelos suicidas, Ángeles del Infierno que se creen guerreros sagrados y revolucionarios oligarcas: bienvenidos al corazón surrealista y deslumbrante de la Rusia del siglo XXI. Con La nueva Rusia, Peter Pomerantsev se sumerge en la Rusia más delirante: un mundo del que mana el nuevo dinero y el nuevo poder, y que cambia tan rápido que rompe todo sentido de la realidad, alberga una forma de dictadura mucho más sutil que cualquiera del siglo xx y se dispone a desafiar a Occidente a medida que acrecienta su fuerza."--
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