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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev Read by John Curless
Description: A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show
“A gripping and unsettling account.” —Washington Post
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 wild and bizarre 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.
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