Summary of Peter Pomerantsev 's Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Money was poured into Moscow, and the city was transformed. The Russians were the new jet set, the richest, most energetic, and most dangerous. They had the most oil, the most beautiful women, and the best parties.
#2 In Russia, working in television is not just about being a camera. In a country covering nine time zones, one-sixth of the world’s land mass, stretching from the Pacific to the Baltic, from the Arctic to the Central Asian deserts, from near-medieval villages to single-factory towns, TV is the only force that can unify and rule and bind this country.
#3 I worked with the TNT network, which is based in a new office building called Byzantium. The network's logo was designed in blindingly bright, squealingly happy pinks, bright blues, and gold. Over the logo was written the network's catchphrase, Feel our Love! This was the new, desperately happy Russia, and this was the image of Russia TNT projected.
#4 The network introduced the reality show to Russia, and it is now considered immoral by aging Communists. It has also pioneered the Russian sitcom and trashy talk show like Jerry Springer.

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• World

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669383857
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Peter Pomerantsev's Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Money was poured into Moscow, and the city was transformed. The Russians were the new jet set, the richest, most energetic, and most dangerous. They had the most oil, the most beautiful women, and the best parties.

#2

In Russia, working in television is not just about being a camera. In a country covering nine time zones, one-sixth of the world’s land mass, stretching from the Pacific to the Baltic, from the Arctic to the Central Asian deserts, from near-medieval villages to single-factory towns, TV is the only force that can unify and rule and bind this country.

#3

I worked with the TNT network, which is based in a new office building called Byzantium. The network's logo was designed in blindingly bright, squealingly happy pinks, bright blues, and gold. Over the logo was written the network's catchphrase, Feel our Love! This was the new, desperately happy Russia, and this was the image of Russia TNT projected.

#4

The network introduced the reality show to Russia, and it is now considered immoral by aging Communists. It has also pioneered the Russian sitcom and trashy talk show like Jerry Springer.

#5

The gold digger myth has become one of the country’s favorite myths. Bookstores are stocked with self-help books telling girls how to bag a millionaire. A roly-poly pimp, Peter Listerman, is a TV celebrity. He doesn’t call himself a pimp, but a matchmaker.

#6

Oliona lives in a new apartment with her little dog. She came to Moscow from Donbas, a Ukrainian mining region taken over by mafia bosses in the 1990s. She studied the same profession as her mother, but her mother’s little boutique went bust. She now earns the basic Moscow mistress rate: the apartment, $4,000 a month, a car, and a weeklong holiday in Turkey or Egypt twice a year.

#7

Oliona is a Moscow mistress who takes clients to clubs. She tells me that she’s hoping for a real Forbes, but if the worst comes to the worst she’ll settle for some millionaire dunce who’s come up from the provinces.

#8

I got to know more graduates from the academies. Natasha was working as a translator for visiting businessmen. She hoped that he would take her back to Munich. Lena wanted to be a pop star in Moscow. She knew she couldn’t sing, but she knew that didn’t matter.

#9

Oliona, a student at the club, explained that she didn’t want to be with the creatives or the analysts. She wanted to be with the possessors, men who were interested in control.

#10

Oliona is a prostitute, but she will never consider herself one. She has her own hunting to do. She met the Forbes when she went up to the VIP room at a club. He was giving out hundred dollar bills to girls for blow jobs.

#11

At 5 a. m. , the clubs get going. The Forbes join the cattle on the dance floor. Everyone is wrecked by then, and they bounce around sweating. They exchange these sweet, simple glances of mutual recognition.

#12

In the 1990s, the words Russian and gangster became almost synonymous. But when the President ascended to the Kremlin, the era of the gangster ended. The secret services took over organized crime. Some became Duma deputies to make their money safe, while others retired to become regular businessmen.

#13

I first met Vitaly in Moscow, when he was at the height of his fame and had come to Moscow to look for money for his next big film. I was working as an assistant to an American documentary director, and we were trying to persuade Vitaly to let us make a documentary about him.

#14

Vitaly was a former gangster who had turned to art. He had agreed to take us down to his hometown and film a scene for his next project. We would have an exclusive with the gangster director at work.

#15

Vitaly was a celebrity in this town. When we walked down the streets, teenage girls with large shoulders and short skirts stopped to have their pictures taken with him. When we stopped by a school, the kids came running out, mobbing Vitaly and thrusting forward their math books and homework pads for him to sign.

#16

In 1988, Vitaly was sent to prison for the first time. When he came out in 1993, he felt that the world had changed. The teachers and cops and judges went unpaid. The factory workers were making fridges and train parts that no one needed.

#17

Stas took us to see the town's car market, which was famous for its Jeeps and other four-by-fours. Everyone here drove the latest models. They might have their toilets in wooden outhouses, but the big, black cars were always shining with a TV commercial sparkle.

#18

The town of Vladivostok was the perfect representation of Russia. It was full of gangsters, and everyone seemed crumpled and black and white. Only the gangsters strode tall in glorious Technicolor.

#19

The Kremlin wanted positive, upbeat films, and they began to phase out Russian gangster movies.