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Dressed Up for a Riot
- Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
Engelsk Paperback
Dressed Up for a Riot
- Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
Engelsk Paperback

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In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside—and closely observing—the media and cultural elite of Putin’s Russia.

After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in chief of GQ Russia, Idov and his family arrive in a Moscow still seething from a dubious election and the mass anti-Putin rallies that erupted in response. Idov is fascinated by the political turmoil but nonetheless finds himself pulled in unlikely directions. He becomes a tabloid celebrity, acts in a Russian movie with Snoop Dogg, befriends the members of Pussy Riot, punches an anti-Semitic magazine editor on the steps of the Bolshoi Theatre, sells an autobiographical sitcom pilot that is later changed into an anti-American farce, and writes Russia’s top-grossing domestic movie of 2015. Meanwhile, he becomes disillusioned with the splintering opposition to Putin and is briefly attracted to a kind of jaded Putinism lite—until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine thoroughly changes his mind.

In Dressed Up for a Riot, Idov writes openly, sensitively, and stingingly about life in Moscow and his place in a media apparatus that sometimes undermined but more often bolstered a state system defined by cynicism, corruption, and the fanning of fake news. With humor and intelligence, he offers a close-up glimpse of what a declining world power can become.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780374538163
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0374538166
Udg. Dato:
1 mar 2019
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
209mm
Højde:
142mm
Forlag:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Oplagsdato:
1 mar 2019
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