"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"--
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ISBN:9781610394550 (hc.) :
Physical Description:print vii, 241 pages ; 25 cm.
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York :PublicAffairs,[2014]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 241).
Formatted Contents Note:
Reality show Russia -- Cracks in the Kremlin matrix -- Forms of delirium.